Reply #2: "go up" to a whopping .7 micro-Sieverts/h [View All]

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On a yearly basis, this would yield 630 millirem from local background alone.

Do you really think it's reasonable to convert the highest single reading to an assumption that it's now the average dose over the course of a year?

Was some part of "not dangerous" too complicated?


On a yearly basis, this would equate to a tad over six millisieverts. Taking out background radiation, it would take 20 years at that level before health physicists would expect to be able to statistically identify an increased cancer rate.