Can nuclear radiation make mankinds routine work easier?
Nuclear radiations are real entities of the physical world that can be used to mans benefit to improve his quality of life. In fact, in view of the ease with which nuclear radiation emitted by radioactive atoms can be detected, these atoms can be used as radioactive tracers of the chemical elements to which they belong, whereby they can be used to visualize the courses these elements follow in natures physical, chemical and biological processes. Radioactive tracers can thus help to unravel the operating or transformation mechanisms of the material world, sparing us the patient laboratory work that would have to be carried out in thousands and thousands of analyses to obtain a similar level of knowledge. Therefore, it is no exaggeration to say that in the last fifty years, we have more than doubled the wealth of our knowledge of the physical world with the aid of radioactive tracers, which are the ultimate paradigm of scientific research into material systems. However, the applications
