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A Handy Radiation Dose Chart From XKCD

An anonymous reader points out Randall Munroe's latest contribution to public health awareness, a "chart of how much ionizing radiation a person can absorb from various sources, compared visually. 1 Sievert will make you sick, many more will kill you, however, even small doses cumulatively increase cancer risk." It's a good way to think about the difference between Chernobyl and Fukushima.

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  1. Re:Bananas by MrQuacker · · Score: 5, Funny

    So, eating a banana is as radioactive as a threesome?

  2. Re:Bananas by Nimloth · · Score: 5, Funny

    I believe the threesome would be higher because most of them involve at least a little of banana eating.

  3. Re:Bananas by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sadly, your average Slashdot reader will instead have to settle for the bananas.

  4. Re:Bananas by CharlyFoxtrot · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wait, if God made bananas easy for humans to eat and bananas are radioactive does that mean God's trying to kill us ?

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  5. Re:Bananas by gilleain · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wait, if God made bananas easy for humans to eat and bananas are radioactive does that mean God's trying to kill us ?

    No, it means that radiation is God's pure love. In order to get closer to Him, all the truly religious should get as close as possible to the hottest source they can find.

    WALK INTO THE LIGHT.

    (note : I am joking - I don't really want the faithful to die of radiation damage. I'm not Dawkins, ffs.)

  6. Re:Bananas by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Inform the news: 1 girl + 2 bananas = radioactive disaster!

  7. Re:additional by Seumas · · Score: 2, Funny

    No. They absorb that shit and transform it into Hello Kitty and hentai.

  8. Re:TSA airport security dosage by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think you meant 0.09 uSv, unless your bananas grow inside nuclear reactor

  9. Re:IODINE TABLETS by Culture20 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm fond of Rad-X. Rad-Away is nice and all, but an ounce of prevention etc.

  10. Re:TSA airport security dosage by Lehk228 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Given how honest the TSA has been about them, probably close to the same as vacationing for a week at chernobyl

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