swimmer_spe wrote:
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Bananas are radioactive. If you could eat enough of them, you would get radioactive poisoning. The key is to know how much is harmful.
"Each banana contains 45 mg of potassium, which includes the radioactive isotope potassium-40. The radiation from bananas measures out as 3,520 picocuries per kilo – that's high enough to set off the more sensitive type of radiation alarms. If you ate one banana per day, you'd receive a dose of 2.6 mrem per year."
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how does that compare with the dose of radiation you receive when you fly at 30-40,000 ft?
bumpy