First New U.S. Nuclear Reactor in Two Decades to Begin Fueling in Tennessee

Re:First New U.S. Nuclear Reactor in Two Decades to Begin Fu... by Ntrails on Monday October 26, 2015 @09:16AM (#10451163)

I recall going round a nuclear power plant once and they had a display showing that fresh coffee beans were radioactive enough to be considered nuclear waste had they been produced by the plant (whilst obviously not being considered materially at risk outside).

It's stuck with me (though I merely presume it to be true).

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Re:First New U.S. Nuclear Reactor in Two Decades to Begin Fu... by hga on Monday October 26, 2015 @09:26AM (#10451213)

This has been formalized with the banana equivalent dose: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose

Potassium-40 is pretty fierce stuff, enough to, in this context, get people to be call for the outlawing more than two people sleeping together. If, you know, they really cared about the level of one kind of safety they insist on, as opposed to shutting down US nuclear activities for their various reasons, and used ludicrous methods like the linear no-threshold model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_no-threshold_model which due to common sense and radiation hormesishttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hormesis we can even say is unscientific.

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