Nuclear chemistry is a specialty of chemistry, responsible for the study of the transformations that atoms present in a natural or artificial way, within the nucleus. This branch of chemistry studies everything related to radioactivity. In other words, it investigates all the chemical reactions that originate in substances considered radioactive. Being natural radioactivity the best known in nuclear chemistry.
Within the natural radioactivity, all the repercussions that arise in the substances, product of radioactive emissions, can be studied, which are classified as alpha, beta and gamma. Those that are of the alpha type have positive radiation, while those of the beta type have negative radiation and in the case of gamma radiation, they do not have an electrical charge. These transformations arise, thanks to the incursion power that each kind of radiation has. The rays that the sun emits is an obvious example of what natural radioactivity is.
On the other hand, artificial radiation is those produced by the hand of man for a specific purpose, especially in the industrial or medical sectors. For example, in the medical field, nuclear medicine is handled. This branch of medicine focuses on performing treatments and evaluations through images known as gammagrams. These images are based on radioactive imaging locations, discovered by gamma radiation.
It is important to highlight the fact that, as time progresses, nuclear chemistry has been of great benefit to humanity, whether for the production of radiopharmaceuticals, for the study of diseases such as cancer, among many others. However, all these applications despite being beneficial for man, can produce waste, like any other activity and therefore, measures are required that allow the preservation of man and the environment.
