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0 pointsroenxi5mo ago0 comments

It does say that. Can you translate that into a measurement of radioactivity & medical risk? I don't think it is obvious.

EDIT The report below it seems to literally be "nothing interesting happened". The thresholds here for something to be reportable are very low. Frankly I don't know why this story is upvoted so much but I'm not about to make a bigger deal about it than one sentence.

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sithadmin5mo ago

300cpm is lower than what you’d be exposed to on a commercial airline flight (400-900ish cpm).

doetoe5mo ago

But is that the same thing? 300cpm says something about the risk to someone near the worker, not about what the worker has been exposed to

gblargg5mo ago

CPM is a function of the detector sensitivity/size and radiation level.

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