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Using a handheld Geiger counter, I tested 15 items\/appliances for radiation. The results were somewhat unvaried, ranging from 0.01 to 0.03 mR(millirem)\/hr .<\/p>\nUsing a handheld Geiger counter, I tested 15 items\/appliances for radiation. The results were somewhat unvaried, ranging from 0.01 to 0.03 mR(millirem)\/hr .<\/p>\n
Laptop: 0.02 mR\/hr<\/p>\n
Television: 0.01 mR\/hr<\/p>\n
Speakers: 0.01 mR\/hr<\/p>\n
Playstation 3: 0.02 mR\/hr<\/p>\n
Vending Machine: 0.02 mR\/hr<\/p>\n
Microwave: 0.03 mR\/hr<\/p>\n
Refrigerator: 0.03 mR\/hr<\/p>\n
Vacuum Cleaner: 0.01 mR\/hr<\/p>\n
Alarm Clock: 0.02 mR\/hr<\/p>\n
Smoke Detector: 0.02 mR\/hr<\/p>\n
Cellular Phone: 0.03 mR\/hr<\/p>\n
Vase: 0.02 mR\/hr<\/p>\n
Car Dashboard: 0.03 mR\/hr<\/p>\n
Lightbulb: 0.01 mR\/hr<\/p>\n
V-Card Reader: 0.02 mR\/hr<\/p>\n
To give you an idea of just how small these amounts are, here are some facts about radiation exposure (taken from Reuters):<\/p>\n
People are exposed to natural radiation of 2-3 mSv a year.<\/p>\n
In a CT scan, the organ being studied typically receives a radiation dose of 15 mSv in an adult to 30 mSv in a newborn infant.<\/p>\n
A typical chest X-ray involves exposure of about 0.02 mSv, while a dental one can be 0.01 mSv.<\/p>\n
Exposure to 100 mSv a year is the lowest level at which any increase in cancer risk is clearly evident. A cumulative 1,000 mSv (1 sievert) would probably cause a fatal cancer many years later in five out of every 100 persons exposed to it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
1 mSv (millisievert) is equal to 100 mR, so we are exposed to 200 – 300 mR\/year. A chest X-ray exposes us to 0.02 mSv, or 2 mR. It would take roughly four days of nonstop exposure to a device that emits radiation at 0.02 mR\/hr to receive as much radiation as is emitted by an X-ray in one sitting. Even so, this amount is 1\/50 of the lowest level at which there is an increase in cancer risk.<\/p>\n
On March 26, at Fukushima Monitoring Post 79, radiation was being emitted at a rate of 825 \u03bcSv (microsievert)\/hr, or 82.5 mR\/hr; that’s 0.83 mSv\/hr, which means that if you were exposed for four or five days, you would approach the lowest level of radiation for cancer risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Using a handheld Geiger counter, I tested 15 items\/appliances for radiation. The results were somewhat unvaried, ranging from 0.01 to 0.03 mR(millirem)\/hr . Laptop: 0.02 mR\/hr Television: 0.01 mR\/hr Speakers: 0.01 mR\/hr Playstation 3: 0.02 mR\/hr Vending Machine: 0.02 mR\/hr Microwave: 0.03 mR\/hr Refrigerator: 0.03 mR\/hr Vacuum Cleaner: 0.01 mR\/hr Alarm Clock: 0.02 mR\/hr Smoke […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":828,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5504],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-group-17"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/828"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1245,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions\/1245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}