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Radiation exposure from mushrooms in Southern Germany

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Re: Radiation exposure from mushrooms in Southern Germany

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fragmede wrote: post #10
acidburnNSA wrote: post #9

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 di…

Bananas are 0.1 microsieverts, interestingly enough.

So if you ate a banana a day you'd get 0.0365 mSv of primordial K-40 radioactive contamination per year! Gasp. ;)

Re: Radiation exposure from mushrooms in Southern Germany

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Post by aix1 »

fragmede wrote: post #10
acidburnNSA wrote: post #9

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 di…

Bananas are 0.1 microsieverts, interestingly enough.

I 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).

Re: Radiation exposure from mushrooms in Southern Germany

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Post by LinuxBender »

acidburnNSA wrote: post #9

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 di…

Adding 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/

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