Fukushima and Radiation – the impact of catastrophic global events on public awareness of radiation protection

Congress:

EuroSafe Imaging 2020

Poster Number:

ESI-05407

Type:

EuroSafe Imaging

Keywords:

Not applicable, Education and training, Education, Complications, CT, Conventional radiography, Radioprotection / Radiation dose, Action 8 - Radiation protection training and learning material

Authors:

G. Rahmani, C. McNamara

DOI:

10.26044/esi2020/ESI-05407

DOI-Link:

https://dx.doi.org/10.26044/esi2020/ESI-05407

Fig. 1: Graphs related to search terms "Effect of Radiation", "Radiation Dose" and...

Fig. 2: Graphs related to search terms "CT scan radiation" and "Xray Radiation". The...

Description of activity and work performed

‘Google Trends’ software was used to examine internet searches related to radiation protection over the past decade from September 2009 to September 2019.

The software outputs the results as a graph demonstrating relative the popularity of a search term over time. The most popular time point for a search term is given the highest score of 100 and the rest of the time periods are given scores relative to this.

The search terms examined were: 'effects of radiation', ‘radiation protection’, 'radiation dose', ‘xray radiation' and ‘CT scan radiation’.

The most popular month for each of the search terms was March 2011, which was the month in which the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster occurred.

Fig. 1: Graphs related to search terms "Effect of Radiation", "Radiation Dose" and "Radiation Protection". The most popular month for each search term was March 2011, the month of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.
References: Dept of Radiology, Galway University Hospitals, Galway, Ireland

Fig. 2: Graphs related to search terms "CT scan radiation" and "Xray Radiation". The most popular month for each search term was March 2011, the month of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.
References: Dept of Radiology, Galway University Hospitals, Galway, Ireland