Radiation protection, sometimes known as radiological protection, is the science of protecting people and the environment from the harmful effects of ionizing and non-ionizing radiation.

It includes occupational radiation protection, which is the protection of workpeople; medical radiation protection, which is the protection of patients; and public radiation protection, which is about protection of individual members of the public, and of the population as a whole.

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