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The average person receives about 300 millirem of naturally occuring radiation a year. Although radiation may cause cancers at high doses and high dose rates, currently there are no data

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Old 04-26-2011, 10:29 AM   #16 (permalink)
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The average person receives about 300 millirem of naturally occuring radiation a year.

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Although radiation may cause cancers at high doses and high dose rates, currently there are no data to establish unequivocally the occurrence of cancer following exposure to low doses and dose rates – below about 10,000 mrem (100 mSv). Those people living in areas having high levels of background radiation – above 1,000 mrem (10 mSv) per year – such as Denver, Colorado, have shown no adverse biological effects.
That's not to say I wouldn't mind an extra dose of radiation, but all this fear associated with hearing the word "radiation" is over exagerrated by the media. Public fear drives viewership and the newsmedia feeds on this stuff. There are far worst things to worry about. Its kind of funny how people make a big deal out of this, yet hardly take a second thought about the carcinogens spewing out of the exhaust.

A short list of the likely pathogens in car exhaust:
Carbon Monoxide
Nitrogen dioxide
Sulphur dioxide
Benzene
Formaldehyde
Polycyclic hydrocarbons
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Don't know who you have been listening to but potassium is NOT a radioactive particle. Potassium Iodide (KI) is used to protect the thyroid from radioactive iodide if taken within a short period of time following exposure.

Heres a link, scroll down to the section about food and you'll see in fact that potassium is a radionuclide...basically a radioactive element Natural Radioactivity
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Remember Christine Christie, the former governor
Whoops, that was Chrissie Whitman. My bad. The current governor is a Christie (the fat one).

On this car radiation business, since the components are made in many different places, it's a real crapshoot. You might accept much higher radiation levels on tires, which are far from the occupants, than you would from a molded steering wheel or airbag. It's not like invisible pixie dust that falls only on the sheet metal, and that can be hosed off with a splash of Dawn detergent. And we're not all about to go out and spend $500+ on good radiation sensors to measure what we can from parts of the car (like in the video at the opening of this thread).
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