Originally Posted by
Braindrain
Sorry, but according to who? I've absorbed more radiation from my 1st year Uni physics labs than what the natural background radiation in Tokyo is giving me.
You said "You've absorbed more radiation from the flight to Japan than being in TYO."
This site says that a TransPacific flight is about 50 microSieverts.
http://depletedcranium.com/putting-r...re-in-context/
My dosimeter regularly picks up 0.20 to 0.25 μSv/hr (not all of the radiation in Tokyo is "natural" anymore...) on the streets of Tokyo. Granted, the numbers are less indoors, so I admit that my calculation was a good bit off. It would probably take 4 to 6 weeks of normal life in Tokyo to equal the radiation exposure of a flight in from the States.