conversion math does naught work

[SloGlo]

sum buddy at s.o.n.g.s. otter right this paper about this article. 2kcpm=6 msieverts?


https://www.ocregister.com/2018/09/21/radiation-readings-at-san-onofre-ignite-debate-over-24-7-monitoring-of-closed-nuclear-plant/amp/

[hamsamich]

it's not even 1 mrem per hour there gamma

[retired nuke]

“It was suggested I not have anymore children,” McClure said.

I think that was less to do with radiation, and more to do with him personally... just a guess...

[RFaunt]

Yeah. The math on that article is pretty wonky. Whoever gave him that conversion data may have been enjoying some of California's legal greenery at the time. Also love the radiation being dispersed by the wind and that likely contributing to the 12-15 CPM increase in background radiation at his house. I do enjoy a good dose of misinformation. Shouldn't expect much less from that area though regarding nuclear.

[fiveeleven]

Cant wait til they find out that within the distance they are trolling about lurks the mysterious, difficult to quantify (esp. tween meters and dosimetric devices) DNA chain buster - new tron. What kinda EBay meter and who will calibrate. A lot of as yet unmetered cellular destruction( not from ionization), going down every 10.3 minutes.

[atomicarcheologist]

Not only does the conversion math not work, none of the numbers work.

"readings shot up to more than 2,000 CPM.
Translated into milliseverets — a measure of the health effect of low levels of ionizing radiation on the human body — that was 6.06."

If 2 kcpm equal 6.06 millisieverts, that would equal 606 millirem.

"more than a dental X-ray but less than the background dose of radiation "

Yes, it would be more than a dental XRay, but I know of very few places on the planet where the background is greater than 600 mrem/hr.

"I’ve got questions about how long should I have stayed there. Southern California Edison says, ‘You could have stood there for a year and only gotten your yearly dose’ — but that’s for a radiation worker. I’m not a radiation worker.” "

600mrem/hr will not exceed a rad workers annual dose?  That would have exceeded every annual radiation dose for rad workers for as long as there have been radiation annual dose limits for rad workers. Without working overtime, taking 2 weeks vacation per year, and working 5 days a week, the annual dose would be 1,212,000 mrem received, or 242.4 times the allowed annual dose for a radiation worker.