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>.1% increase in the number of radioactive particulates going into my body? Big deal. Why would that be a big deal? It is a .1% increase.

• ASalazarMX 11mo ago
  Yearly average exposition is about 600 mrem, don't take risks with those aditional 0.6 mrems!
  • zbentley 11mo ago
    I didn't say radiation exposure, I said radioactive particulates in my body. 0.1% increase in radiation exposure is a high altitude plane flight. Nothing to be concerned about as you say. 0.1% increase in radioactive particulates in my body is a Fukishima sand grain in a clam. Or a leaky medical iodine cell. Or a speck of Chernobyl ash stirred up by passing soldiers and inhaled. That's a much bigger concern.
    • monerozcash 11mo ago
      This still doesn't make any sense. Let’s say you have a hypothetical 25 nanograms of radioactive particulates in your body. Now we add 0.1%, and you have 25.025 nanograms of radioactive particulates in your body. This is not a meaningful difference at all.
      • ASalazarMX 11mo ago
        You wouldn't be so cavalier if you had to live with 1,000 Fukishima sand grains in your body all the time. That 1,001st one could be the straw that breaks the camel's back.