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backscatter712 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-11 11:43 AM
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Randall Munroe of xkcd puts together a radiation dosage chart (informative rather than funny.)
Edited on Mon Mar-21-11 11:47 AM by backscatter712
http://blog.xkcd.com/2011/03/19/radiation-chart/

For those of you wondering what the hell a microsievert, a millisievert, or a sievert is, or how they affect the body, or how the radiation doses at Fukushima compare with other sources and events, you'll find this useful.

http://xkcd.com/radiation/ (big image, may take a while for dial-up users...)

It's good info, check it out.
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FSogol Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-11 12:43 PM
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1. "If you are basing radiation safety procedures on an internet png image & things go wrong, you have
no one to blame, but yourself."

:-)
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