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A banana contains naturally occurring radioactive material in the form of potassium-40.. Banana equivalent dose (BED) is an informal unit of measurement of ionizing radiation exposure, intended as a general educational example to compare a dose of radioactivity to the dose one is exposed to by eating one average-sized banana.
The banana equivalent dose is sometimes used in science communication to visualize different levels of ionizing radiation. The collective radiation background dose for natural sources in Europe is about 500,000 man-Sieverts per year. The total dose from Chernobyl is estimated at 80,000 man-sieverts, or roughly 1/6 as much. [1]
Soldiers suffered radiation poisoning and burns. They were eventually traced back to training sources abandoned, forgotten, and unlabeled after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. One was a 137 Cs pellet in a pocket of a shared jacket which put out about 130,000 times the level of background radiation at a one-metre (3.3 ft) distance. [86]
LONDON (Reuters) -Russian soldiers who seized the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster drove their armoured vehicles without radiation protection through a highly toxic zone called the "Red ...
The banana equivalent dose is the dose of ionizing radiation to which a person is exposed by eating one banana. Bananas contain potassium . Natural potassium consists of 0.0117% of the radioactive isotope 40 K (potassium-40) and has a specific activity of 30,346 becquerels per kilogram, or about 30 becquerels per gram.
Fears that Russia is using Europe’s largest nuclear power plant as a weapon reached a new level of alarm on Friday. Energoatom, the state company that owns the plant, announced on Telegram that ...
The Tupolev Tu-16 (USAF/DOD reporting name Type 39; [2] NATO reporting name: Badger) [3] is a twin-engined jet strategic heavy bomber used by the Soviet Union.It has been flown for almost 70 years.
The AEK-999 Barsuk (Russian: Барсук, "badger") is a Russian machine gun chambered for the 7.62×54mmR round. It is a general-purpose machine gun, developed during the 1990s as a modernized version of the PKM to improve its capabilities in the LMG/SAW role.