[meteorite-list] OT Radiation Dose Chart

From: Steve Dunklee <steve.dunklee_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 09:19:16 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <956946.38334.qm_at_web113906.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>

radiation dose is realy wierd. You can get more radiation from an hour in the sun getting a tan than from being scanned at the airport. A tanning bed or a few hours in front of a cathode ray tube. Then you can replace the lantern mantle on your camping lantern and breath in more radioactive material than you could ever get anywhere else. Its not so much what you get exposed to. Its how much gets in you. Like drinking water or eating food contaminated with radioactive iodine. Iodised salt does provide some protection and an ordinary dust mask also helps. One thing that is more damaging in most places is the latex rubber dust you breath in driving to work and back from your tires. Without the acid introduced into your lungs from second hand smoke there is nothing going to remove the rubber dust from your lungs. Cheers Steve


      
Received on Mon 21 Mar 2011 12:19:16 PM PDT