Gosh, i learnt some new stuffs today about radiation. Did u know that water has some form of radiation? Even the food that we eat? and brazillian nutssssss....I knew some sources of radiation before today but not all. When my tutor was talking about it, i was more than suprised cos i love water directly from the tap now I've been told it has like twice the amount of radiation in a bottled water. Thinking about that, what about water from the well??? i wonder how much radiation that has, its definitely gonna be much more.
Someone asked about radiation above sea level or cross atlantic. Apparently aviation people have dosimetry,I didnt know that until today,I thought it was only health professionals that have it.(Dosimetry is a lil device we have to wear around the torso each time we are in placement,it measures the amount of radiation we are exposed to at work). The question now is do people know how much radiation they are exposing themselves to when they travel by air? If they knew will it change their perspective? I dont think so cos people love their holidays too much, well i love mine so....i wont really mind...lol.What i think is that the info or awareness of radiation will only help passengers make informed choices. We were told its not actually that much, its equivalent to having a chest xray. So if u fly from the UK to US, the radiation u will recieve is just as having a chest xray so you even have more from travelling unless u wont return to the UK!
There is radiation everywhere, if u have a smoke alarm, it has emits radiation, if u live in a sky scrapper, u are exposed to radiation....well its only GOd that can keep us safe.
I'm sure Nigerians are exposed to more radiation than the UK or the US but cancer rate is less there, maybe its not always recorded or Nigerians have better threshold for radiation...lol
Why do we have 2 kidneys when we can survive with one? That's a question one of my classmates asked and i loved the answer my tutor gave....go n ask God! i was kinda happy with that reply cos at least some people still believe that we werent created from a big bang neither are we animals! Why cant people just be grateful for what they have instead of asking questions? Typical human isint it?
Today wasnt a bad day, it was kinda boring in the morning but the radiation sources lectures woke me up.......
6 more days to go******
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