Let's watch 'Fear of radiation exposure' and avoid it!Check with smartphone and goggles

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In May, victims of Samsung Electronics' radiation exposure, known as YTN's exclusive report, suffered serious injuries such as skin necrosis.

Radiation is invisible, so the risk of exposure cannot be avoided, and it has been recognized as an object of fear because it is difficult to recognize exposure on its own even after exposure.

However, domestic researchers have developed a technology that can use smartphones or goggles to know in advance whether they are exposed to radiation and evacuate.

Reporter Lim Null-sol reports.

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The hand of a victim exposed to high-dose radiation.

His fingers were black as if they had been burned, and his skin was even peeled off.

Exposure to radiation like this can damage cells, causing disorders in the nervous system and cardiovascular system.

The problem is that radiation is invisible, making it difficult to know and respond to the risk of exposure in advance.

However, domestic researchers have developed a technology that can check whether radiation is emitted through smartphones or goggles.

This technology has increased the accuracy of radiation detection using artificial intelligence algorithms and implemented it in augmented reality so that it can be viewed with goggles and smartphones.

If you open an app developed by a smartphone and view the workspace with a camera, you can see the location and intensity of radioactive materials directly.

In addition, if you look at goggles, it appears red in places with strong radiation and orange in places with weak radiation, and it tells you the distance between the worker and the radioactive material to prepare for the risk of exposure.

[Lee Kyu-chul / Director of RI Application Department, Radiology Research Institute, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute: Existing surveyors are responsible for radiation safety management that measures radiation pollution while carrying it around. I think (the technology developed this time) can reduce the time and physical reduction of radiation safety accidents.]

Existing foreign radiation detectors were expensive at over hundreds of millions of won per unit and unstable communication signal processing within the control area, making it difficult to accurately detect radiation.

This technology has strengthened the competitiveness of domestic radiation detectors by wirelessly connecting radiation detectors, computers, and smartphones to check radiation information even in shielding spaces, and lowering the price by about 100 times.

[Chae Jong-seo / Director of the Metaverse-based Radiation Safety ICT Research Center: (We can develop it into a system that can always check how much radon is in the apartment parking lot or in our factory parking lot.)]

The research team expected that if the developed technology is commercialized, radiation exposure damage will be prevented in advance at production sites, hospitals, nuclear power plants, and research facilities that handle radioactive materials.

I'm YTN Science Lim Neul-sol.