The Joke of the Day: I Quit Drinking!

Wine.












This morning.

Natural Radiation in Salmon

Bananas have 3.5 pCi/g, or 525 pCi per 150 gram banana, enough to alarm a radiation monitor. One per day would give you 36 microSieverts per year.

In America from all sources we get about 6,200 microSieverts per year.

Salmon has 20.0 pCi/g, nearly 6 times as much. A 150 gram piece of salmon will thus emit 3,000 pCi of radiation, a little over 200 microSieverts per year if you ate that much everyday.

Naturally!

Why I'm Still Not Worried About Radioactive Wild Salmon From Alaska

From an excellent blog post "Radiation Misinformation" by Jack Phillips from 10 February 2012 here:

[S]almon have always been radioactive because they contain radioactive potassium just like we do. Have they become more radioactive as the result of the release of 26 billion Becquerel (Bq) into the Pacific Ocean as reported by Tepco?  Unlikely when you consider that this is less than one Curie (Ci) of radioactivity and the oceans contain over 400 billion Ci of radioactivity, 380 from Potassium, 87 from rubidium and 1 from Uranium 238.

Keep On Sucking Until You Do Succeed

Curley: "If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking until you do succeed."

The Three Stooges in Movie Maniacs, 1935 (here)