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Yet there's no shorthand for the "potentially beneficial" scope...

I just hate that the general public connotes "radiation" with "harmful".

> Yet there's no shorthand for the "potentially beneficial" scope...

Yes there is. The main word is "light". And also "warmth" or "radio waves".

... and X-rays, radiotherapy, scintigraphy...

Still, the fact is that "radiation", for the layman, means nocive radioactivity.