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Re: How risky is low level Radiation ?

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Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> wrote:
> Good Info on Radiation risk
> 
> http://www.umich.edu/~radinfo/introduction/risk.htm
> 
> 
> Another way of looking at risk, is to look at the Relative Risk of 1 in 
> a million chances of dying of activities common to our society.
> 
> 
>        Smoking 1.4 cigarettes (lung cancer)
>        Eating 40 tablespoons of peanut butter
>        Spending 2 days in New York City (air pollution)
>        Driving 40 miles in a car (accident)
>        Flying 2500 miles in a jet (accident)
>        Canoeing for 6 minutes
>        Receiving 10 mrem of radiation (cancer)
> 
> Adapted from DOE Radiation Worker Training, based on work by B.L Cohen, 
> Sc.D.
> 
> 
> Procedure | Dose (Sv)| Dose (mrem) |Fatal Cancer |# Cigarettes| #Miles
> 
> Chest xray
>        3.2 x 10-5      3.2     1.3 x 10-6      9       23
> 
> Skull Exam
>        1.5 x 10-4      15      6 x 10-6        44      104
> 
> Barium Enema
>        5.4 x 10-4      54      2 x 10-5        148     357
> 
> Bone Scan
>        4.4 x 10-3      440     1.8 x 10-4      1300    3200
> 
> 
> [never smoke in a canoe after a Peanut and Jelly sandwitch in Colorado !]

Doesn't account for the differences between localized exposure and whole
body exposure or total exposure over time, which are highly relevant.


-- 
Jim Pennino

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How risky is low level Radiation ? Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2016-06-10 10:20 -0500
  Re: How risky is low level Radiation ? Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2016-06-10 12:06 -0700
    Re: How risky is low level Radiation ? Mikkel Haaheim <mikkelhaaheim@gmail.com> - 2016-06-10 12:21 -0700
      Re: How risky is low level Radiation ? Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2016-06-10 13:37 -0700
        Re: How risky is low level Radiation ? jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-06-10 21:48 +0000
          Re: How risky is low level Radiation ? Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2016-06-11 12:36 -0700
            Re: How risky is low level Radiation ? noTthaTguY <abu.kuanysh05@gmail.com> - 2016-06-11 15:15 -0700
    Re: How risky is low level Radiation ? jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-06-10 21:44 +0000
  Re: How risky is low level Radiation ? jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-06-10 21:40 +0000

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