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In reply to the discussion: Fukushima; What You Should and Shouldn't Worry About [View all]X_Digger
(18,585 posts)14. You can't even read a quote in context right. *sigh*
It's not a 10% increase in daily exposure. They're talking about a hypothetical subsistence fisherman in 2011 who ate five times the amount of fish that the average US citizen does, for a year.
Consumption of 200 g (a typical restaurant-sized serving) of PBFT contaminated with 4.0 Bq·kg-1 dry weight of 134Cs and 6.3 Bq·kg-1 dry weight of 137Cs (mean values for PBFT caught off San Diego in August 2011) resulted in committed effective doses of 3.7 and 4.0 nSv, respectively (Table 1).
To put this into perspective, the combined dose of 7.7 nSv from these two Cs isotopes is only about 5% of the dose acquired from eating one uncontaminated banana (assuming 200 g weight) and absorbing its naturally occurring 40K (28)
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Thus, for the hypothetical subsistence fisherman who consumed 124 kg of contaminated PBFT·y?1 and therefore received a 134+137Cs committed effective dose of 4.7 ?Sv, the increased probability of fatal cancer would be 0.00002% (i.e., 2 additional cancer cases per 10 million similarly exposed people). Currently, inferring risk of health effects from such low doses encompasses large uncertainties.
Of course the radiation has dropped significantly since 2011.
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Thank you for posting valid science and not the crap we get from sources like "ENEnews".
NYC_SKP
Jan 2014
#1
As I mentioned in that thread, I hadn't seen the original when I wrote the reply.
NYC_SKP
Jan 2014
#32
Of course I would. I would also like to know if the presidency was stolen from Al Gore and
ChisolmTrailDem
Jan 2014
#12
I'm comparing radiation to radiation- you know, the part that actually harms you.
X_Digger
Jan 2014
#34
The three articles are sourced. Why you can't see that is your business, not mine.
Octafish
Feb 2014
#52