Radiation Doses in Perspective (B)

    It's all very confusing to this reader and poster as to "safe" levels of radiation from any source.

         And even in peacetime, there are already plenty of different kinds of radiation "out there". Think of medicine for example, like x-rays and CAT Scans. Or think of living at higher altitudes.

         As for me, I am going to plan on trying to get information from the radio as best I can. Plan B is to get it by "rumor control", and then use my own judgment. The assumption is some kind of nuclear war or nuclear accident has occurred, and it might affect me where I live.

         There are just too many unknowns, including the weather, to confidently predict and plan ahead for radiation problems as much as I would like to.

         So for the first few days after such events might occur, mostly simple type tasks are appropriate and have been covered by me in other posts. So this post is more about the long term impacts I should also plan for and consider.

         Basically, the idea of half-lives of most of the "bad" radiation sources adverse to we humans does work in our behalf. Said another way, after 3 or 4 days, the background radiation is considerably reduced for most radiations adverse to we humans.

         Now even I have a poor-mans Geiger counter, but have little faith in how to best use it to my benefit. Even the measuring systems still vary a lot, like there is the metric system and the older systems. And I've got some military training on this subject in my past, too. Hence, again, getting information as best I can in deciding what to do in my future is a decent course of action these days.