Radiation Dose Chart

Just incase anyone was interested.

The link to the site here.

I love XKCD

The "Radiation Cloud" that came over California (and had everyone scrambling to shove Iodine down their throats) was about one of those blue boxes. Actually, I don't think they could distinguish anything above background noise.

Really puts things in perspective. So many of the towns near the accident received a level of radiation equal to around 35 bananas...

^^^This

I have a hard time understanding radiation doses in Sieverts. I could understand it better in bananas.

MadScientistMatt wrote: ...... So many of the towns near the accident received a level of radiation equal to around 35 bananas...

I'm sure the Japanese living there feel better about the contamination in their foodchain. Radiation isn't the same.

orphancars wrote: ^^^This I have a hard time understanding radiation doses in Sieverts. I could understand it better in bananas.

quoted for truth!

MadScientistMatt wrote: Really puts things in perspective. So many of the towns near the accident received a level of radiation equal to around 35 bananas...

Too bad that doesn't sound nearly as terrifying as it should to really sell newspapers.

The more of these things I learn about and understand, the more I realize how criminally irresponsible the news media is and how badly they affect human progress.

Because some talking head wants to make himself look dramatic, the nuclear energy industry is kept in the dark ages instead of being able to advance. Idiots see news anchor Stud McMuffin on TV saying how terrible and dangerous the radiation is and they instantly get out the torches and pitchforks any time someone dares to want to upgrade an old nuclear plant or (horrors) build a new one.

No wonder we're still hooked through the bag by oil and coal consumption for power generation. Modern nuclear power could fill the gap until truly viable renewable sources can be developed, but no! Won't somebody think of the children?!

I've been disappointed with our media more times than I can count. I've never actually been angry at them until now.

entropy disagrees with your assertion that any energy is renewable...

Duke wrote: ....The more of these things I learn about and understand, the more I realize how criminally irresponsible the news media is and how badly they affect human progress.....

But not Nancy Grace right... she' smurt...

http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/crime/2011/03/21/ng.japan.radiation.hln.html

BTW - The same thing can be said about pretty much all the NewsOpionioTainment shows out there. People think it is news, and it has even fewer "boundries"

aircooled wrote:

Duke wrote: ....The more of these things I learn about and understand, the more I realize how criminally irresponsible the news media is and how badly they affect human progress.....

But not Nancy Grace right... she' smurt... http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/crime/2011/03/21/ng.japan.radiation.hln.html BTW - The same thing can be said about pretty much all the NewsOpionioTainment shows out there. People think it is news, and it has even fewer "boundries"

What a worthless vajajay.

minimac wrote:

MadScientistMatt wrote: ...... So many of the towns near the accident received a level of radiation equal to around 35 bananas...

I'm sure the Japanese living there feel better about the contamination in their foodchain. Radiation isn't the same.

That is a different problem, and a very real one. Though if there's a bright side, it's easier to check for radioactive food contamination than some other things the food could have been contaminated with.

unless it is bananas

I don't like it when my food is contaminated with bananas. Unless it's banana bread. That's okay.

I wonder where "living in a naturally radioactive area with water mains buried in uranium mill tailings" falls on the chart?

Hopefully less than 100 mSv (or fewer than 12,345 Bananas)

What if you skip a dose? Should you take it as soon as you remember, or should you just take it when the next dose is due?

Nancy Grace is a Can't Understand Normal Thinking.

Sweet, so my CT scan was worth 58,000 bananas. I can count that as healthy right?

I wonder where living in Nevada in the 50's would fall on that chart?

In reply to Streetwiseguy:

I think that technically "falls out" of the chart.

I find it interesting that as far as known, no one has died from the radiation presently. Yet 55 miners die in a coal mine explosion and it is virtually ignored.

Did anyone notice that early wire reports of Japan's nuclear problems slid in an incidental line to the effect of "most children who drank commercially available milk during cold-war era nuclear testing were exposed to radiation from that source"?

That caught my eye, and I did a little research. Learned some horrifying things, not only about how thoroughly our food chain was contaminated, but also how many Americans were directly exposed to fallout. I grew up in Eastern Kentucky, and according to government sources--not online wackery--I was exposed to what a nuclear worker today is permitted as max exposure in one year. Problem there is that I was an infant when it happened. No wonder I'm weird!

Margie

Marjorie Suddard wrote: Did anyone notice that early wire reports of Japan's nuclear problems slid in an incidental line to the effect of "most children who drank commercially available milk during cold-war era nuclear testing were exposed to radiation from that source"? That caught my eye, and I did a little research. Learned some horrifying things, not only about how thoroughly our food chain was contaminated, but also how many Americans were directly exposed to fallout. I grew up in Eastern Kentucky, and according to government sources--not online wackery--I was exposed to what a nuclear worker today is permitted as max exposure in one year. Problem there is that I was an infant when it happened. No wonder I'm weird! Margie

So ... what super powers do you have?

I understand she can make people disappear.

TRoglodyte wrote: I understand she can make people disappear.

And I'm thinking the concrete mix has mucho granite content.