The amount of radiation a nuclear worker is permitted is roughly equivalent to the amount of exposure you would get from eating one extra banana in a year.
Bananas are rich in potassium-40, a radioactive element. If you eat it, you get exposed to it. Brazil nuts are rich in Radium. Carbon 14 is radioactive, and you get some with every vegetable you eat.
Certainly nuclear workers should have low exposure limits, and they do. I don’t think it is a service to compare exposure to these very low limits.
I will still eat bananas, brazil nuts, and vegetables.
But don’t you know the sky is falling?! Now the whole Pacific Ocean is at risk!!
Is it time to evacuate the Philippines ? Guam ??
How many thousands have already died!?!?
The amount of radiation a nuclear worker is permitted is roughly equivalent to the amount of exposure you would get from eating one extra banana in a year.
Bananas are rich in potassium-40, a radioactive element. If you eat it, you get exposed to it. Brazil nuts are rich in Radium. Carbon 14 is radioactive, and you get some with every vegetable you eat.
Certainly nuclear workers should have low exposure limits, and they do. I don’t think it is a service to compare exposure to these very low limits.
I will still eat bananas, brazil nuts, and vegetables.
6 posted on Wednesday, August 21, 2013 10:04:23 AM by donmeaker
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You are obviously ill informed or distributing propaganda. Do you honestly think that the nuclear power industry is limited the quantity of banana equivalent doses to its employees? They’d send staff with specialized training home when they reach their yearly limit?
Have you ever wondered why radioactive materials require DOT licenses and lead shielding when transported but bananas just get thrown in the back of a delivery truck (well no - that would bruise them, “placed” in the back)and displayed in grocery stores? You can’t blame ‘hysterical’ citizens for the disparity in the treatment of radioactive sources and bananas - that’s the territory of the EPA and Department of Transportation.
There is NO comparison between the food items you listed containing radioactive potassium and the issues facing us today re Fukushima. So either you weren’t aware of the differences or you are a nuke apologist who distributes this kind of nonsense in order to ridicule the populace into silence. But that last tactic doesn’t work anymore because of information sharing on the web - we know to ignore anyone who makes banana, nut or vegetable comparisons because those people don’t have enough knowledge of science to comprehend the basics.