What Do Radiation Contamination and Exposure Mean?

This brief animated video describes the concepts of radiation exposure and contamination with radioactive materials, to help people understand how to protect themselves in a radiation emergency and how these terms are used differently than in an infectious disease emergency. Removing radioactive contamination (decontamination) will be an important protective action in a radiation emergency.
This video can also be viewed at
www.cdc.gov/wc...