Radiation exposure from mushrooms in Southern Germany

Re:Radiation exposure from mushrooms in Southern Germany by acidburnNSA on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @07:35AM (#33245758)

For context, you get 6 mSv per year from natural background sources plus normal medical diagnostics in the USA. In Denver you get 9 per year due to proximity to space (cosmic rays ..). In Ramsar Iran the population gets 150 mSv/yr due to higher natural radiation in the local geology.

Regular consumption of these mushrooms leading to an additional 0.27 mSv doesn't concern me even a little.

All publications and news discussing radioactive contamination should be required to be quantitative in mSv units like this one. The difference between detectible and hazardous in radiation is about 10 orders of magnitude.

https://www.epa.gov/radiation/radiation-sources-and-doses#av...

More dose info; https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2018/01/f46/doe-ioni...

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Re:Radiation exposure from mushrooms in Southern Germany by fragmede on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @07:51AM (#33245882)

Bananas are 0.1 microsieverts, interestingly enough.

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Re:Radiation exposure from mushrooms in Southern Germany by aix1 on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @08:04AM (#33245977)

I just wanted to quickly highlight the difference in units in the parent and the grandparent: 0.1 uSv vs 0.27 mSv (i.e. three orders of magnitude).

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Re:Radiation exposure from mushrooms in Southern Germany by acidburnNSA on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @08:02AM (#33245968)

So if you ate a banana a day you'd get 0.0365 mSv of primordial K-40 radioactive contamination per year! Gasp. ;)

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Re:Radiation exposure from mushrooms in Southern Germany by LinuxBender on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @11:18AM (#33263483)

Adding to this, here [1] is a calculator to get some rough numbers for exposure. It isn't perfect or all-inclusive but covers what I was looking for that being altitude differences

[1] - https://www.ans.org/nuclear/dosechart/

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