{"id":91170,"date":"2019-05-22T21:29:09","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T04:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/can-miracle-material-stop-radiation"},"modified":"2019-05-22T21:29:09","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T04:29:09","slug":"can-miracle-material-stop-radiation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/can-miracle-material-stop-radiation","title":{"rendered":"Can Miracle Material Stop Radiation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/can-miracle-material-stop-radiation3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/can-miracle-material-stop-radiation2.jpg\" alt=\"Product_two_ply_vest_detail\" title=\"Product_two_ply_vest_detail\"\/> Gamma radiation is the most penetrating and energetic form of nuclear radiation. To <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gamma_ray#Shielding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">absorb half the incoming Gamma<\/a> you need two and a half inches of concrete or almost half an inch of lead. So my eyebrows went up when I saw a press release for an organization called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radshield.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Radiation Shielding Technologies<\/a>, or RST, selling protective clothing with this startling claim:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>DemronTM not only protects against particle ionizing\/nuclear radiation (such as Beta and Alpha), but does what NO OTHER full body radiation protection can do: shield against X-ray and low-energy Gamma emissions.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve read your last complimentary article this month. To read the full article, <a to=\"https:\/\/subscribe.wired.com\/subscribe\/splits\/wired\/WIR_Edit_Hardcoded?source=finalbarrier_text_failsafe\" href=\"https:\/\/subscribe.wired.com\/subscribe\/splits\/wired\/WIR_Edit_Hardcoded?source=finalbarrier_text_failsafe\">SUBSCRIBE NOW<\/a>. If you\u2019re already a subscriber, please <a to=\"\/account\/sign-in\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/account\/sign-in\/\">sign in<\/a> and and verify your subscription.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2008\/06\/radiation-proof\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gamma radiation is the most penetrating and energetic form of nuclear radiation. To absorb half the incoming Gamma you need two and a half inches of concrete or almost half an inch of lead. So my eyebrows went up when I saw a press release for an organization called Radiation Shielding Technologies, or RST, selling [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}