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Re:Show HN: I built a desktop radiation monitor with Raspber... by dandigangi on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @10:19AM (#23759532)
3.6 roentgen. Not great. Not terrible.

Very cool project. Always impressed the level craftsmanship some people have.

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Re:Show HN: I built a desktop radiation monitor with Raspber... by acidburnNSA on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @10:25AM (#23759606)
If anyone wants some context about radiation dose units across various orders of magnitude, I recommend the charts in this DOE chart (see page 6) [1]

[1] https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2018/01/f46/doe-ioni...

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Re:Show HN: I built a desktop radiation monitor with Raspber... by dandigangi on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @11:11AM (#23760054)
Was expecting someone to downvote me because they haven't seen Chernobyl on HBO. Haha
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Re:Show HN: I built a desktop radiation monitor with Raspber... by chrisys on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @11:22AM (#23760159)
The opening line of my blog post was almost a reference to this, then nobody I had proof read the post got it so I took it out :P
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Re:Show HN: I built a desktop radiation monitor with Raspber... by basementcat on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @03:43PM (#23763193)
Another radiation dose chart from XKCD.

https://xkcd.com/radiation/

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Re:Show HN: I built a desktop radiation monitor with Raspber... by f1refly on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @03:41AM (#23767790)
Remove this man from the comment section, he's in shock!
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