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It says "The individual was decontaminated by radiation protection personnel but had 300 counts per minute detected in their hair."

• roenxi 11mo ago
  It does say that. Can you translate that into a measurement of radioactivity & medical risk? I don't think it is obvious. EDIT The report below it seems to literally be "nothing interesting happened". The thresholds here for something to be reportable are very low. Frankly I don't know why this story is upvoted so much but I'm not about to make a bigger deal about it than one sentence.
  • sithadmin 11mo ago
    300cpm is lower than what you’d be exposed to on a commercial airline flight (400-900ish cpm).
    • doetoe 11mo ago
      But is that the same thing? 300cpm says something about the risk to someone near the worker, not about what the worker has been exposed to
    • gblargg 11mo ago
      CPM is a function of the detector sensitivity/size and radiation level.
• madaxe_again 11mo ago
  For reference, this is about the same in your hair that you’d get from a few hours in a pub in the 90s, never mind working in one - surprising amount of radiation in cigarette smoke from polonium and lead-210.