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CJvR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-17-11 03:46 AM
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32. Following Chernobyl...
...some areas in Sweden were contaminated a bit more seriously than the pixie dust in California.
The limits set up then was 300 Bq/kg for regular foodstuff and 1500 Bq/kg for mushrooms, lake fish and wild game shot in the area. The yearly limit was set to 80 kBq or about 1 mSv. Unless you live of the land in the affected areas you are unlikely to get more than 1/300 of the limit in Sweden. Also Cesium have a biological halflife of about 3 months in humans, 1 month for children, so it's ability to accumulate is limited.
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