Radiation Chart

85 points by inaequitas 15 years ago | 7 comments

WildUtah 15 years ago |

"If you're basing radiation safety procedures on an internet PNG and things go wrong, you have no one to blame but yourself."

Japan's nuclear regulators were using a fuzzy JPG file when they licensed all those reactors in a tsunami zone. Chernobyl was designed with a GIF.

BoppreH 15 years ago |

The EPA guidelines for emergencies are very interesting: doses linked with increased cancer risk are allowed during property and life saving.

Aside from this chart, what other resources are around xkcd.com that are not mentioned in the main page?

I feel like I'm losing big information here.

jeffcoat 15 years ago | |

This was posted today on the XKCD blag [sic], which is distinct from the comic feed.

http://blag.xkcd.com/

bigiain 15 years ago | |

I wonder what "clearly linked to increased cancer risk" actually means.

I don't have any idea whether that means it's more or less dangerous than, say, smoking.

mikecane 15 years ago |

It should be noted that up to 4,000 microSieverts was measured near the plants. Measurements have been in the 3,000 mSV range. That's over the 2K mSV "severe radiation poisoning" level cited in the chart

miratrix 15 years ago | |

mSv stands for milli-Sievert, and uSv is micro-Sievert. 4000 uSv would be equivalent to 4 mSv, which is where Randall has it listed.

mikecane 15 years ago | | |

Dammit. Thanks for the correction. I meant MICRO-Sievert.