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For context, you get 6 mSv per year from natural background sources plus normal medical diagnostics in the USA. In Denver you get 9 per year due to proximity to
by acidburnNSA 4y ago
For context, you get 6 mSv per year from natural background sources plus normal medical diagnostics in the USA. In Denver you get 9 per year due to proximity to space (cosmic rays ..). In Ramsar Iran the population gets 150 mSv/yr due to higher natural radiation in the local geology.
Regular consumption of these mushrooms leading to an additional 0.27 mSv doesn't concern me even a little.
All publications and news discussing radioactive contamination should be required to be quantitative in mSv units like this one. The difference between detectible and hazardous in radiation is about 10 orders of magnitude.
https://www.epa.gov/radiation/radiation-sources-and-doses#averagedoses https://www.epa.gov/radiation/radiation-sources-and-doses#av...
More dose info; https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2018/01/f46/doe-ionizing-radiation-dose-ranges-jan-2018.pdf https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2018/01/f46/doe-ioni...
- fragmede 4y agoBananas are 0.1 microsieverts, interestingly enough.
- acidburnNSA 4y agoSo if you ate a banana a day you'd get 0.0365 mSv of primordial K-40 radioactive contamination per year! Gasp. ;)
- aix1 4y agoI just wanted to quickly highlight the difference in units in the parent and the grandparent: 0.1 uSv vs 0.27 mSv (i.e. three orders of magnitude).
- LinuxBender 4y agoAdding to this, here [1] is a calculator to get some rough numbers for exposure. It isn't perfect or all-inclusive but covers what I was looking for that being altitude differences [1] - https://www.ans.org/nuclear/dosechart/ https://www.ans.org/nuclear/dosechart/