Radioactive Bananas?
- Out Of This World
- Oct 19, 2016
- 1 min read
Radioactive bananas? Yes! bananas are radioactive, But don't worry you wont grow an extra arm or an extra head from eating a banana. Only if you eat 10,000,000 bananas at once you will most certainly get radiation poisoning. If you eat 274 bananas a day for seven years you would witness chronic symptoms.
To calculate these numbers i used the BED; A rather large estimate of radiation from eating a single banana.
BED of one banana, at most, one microsievert or 1 μSv (1)
To die from a single exposure (within days): 10 Gy= 10Sv (2)
To start having symptoms from chronic exposure: 0.1 Gy/yr for at least 7 years
How many bananas to i have to eat a day to die?
10Sv/1μSv= 10.000.000: Ten million bananas
How many bananas do you have to eat to start having symptoms?
274 bananas a day for 7 years.
"Everything is poison and nothing is without poison, it is only the dose that makes some things not a poison"
-Paracelsus
So dont be scared that you might mutate from eating a single banana!
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