How risky is low level Radiation ?

From	Sergio <invalid@invalid.com>
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Subject	How risky is low level Radiation ?
Date	2016-06-10 10:20 -0500
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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 !]

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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
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