Look, folks, the Alpha particles and Gamma radiation that might- and might is the operative term- might end up in the USA in total may be the equivalent of the contents of a handful of smoke detectors. Which you could tear apart and EAT, and probably not suffer any harm (the Americium in a smoke detector is in a non soluble form- in any kind of soluble form, you’d get a healthy dose of gamma radiation and probably get bone cancer.)(I still would try to avoid, if possible, but if someone breaks in your house, ties you up, and forces you to eat the Americium pill out of the ionization chamber of a smoke alarm, you’ll probably be OK.) (Unless they shoot you, or force you to watch the Barry Manilow Farewell special)<\/p>\n
I had to explain to someone at work what the Banana Equivalent Dose <\/a>was, and they freaked out that their fruit had radioactivity!!! Then they didn’t believe me, and googled around until they found someone “Proving” bananas weren’t radioactive by holding a CDV-715<\/a> over them. <\/p>\n Sigh. Science is such an undiscovered country for most people. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Look, folks, the Alpha particles and Gamma radiation that might- and might is the operative term- might end up in the USA in total may be the equivalent of the contents of a handful of smoke detectors. Which you could tear apart and EAT, and probably not suffer any harm (the Americium in a smoke […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}