Radiation exposure from mushrooms in Southern Germany

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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