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Pastimes : The New Qualcomm - write what you like thread.
QCOM 174.810.0%Dec 26 9:30 AM EST
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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (2155)9/22/2000 7:55:55 AM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (2) of 12246
 
<font color=blue>M + X = C

Here are the sources of rem for most Americans. I suppose it's similar for most people in OECD countries.
physics.isu.edu

Radon is the biggie - over half the total dose. Gee! I'd have guessed about 20%.

We can discount medical x-rays since people won't use cellphones while they are getting medical x-rays, few of which would go into brains anyway. So people could use cellphones while having chest x-rays. Same for nuclear medicine.

I'm looking for energy levels which need that extra M boost to reach ionizing energy. These all seem to be ionizing without M. Certainly Radon decomposition is. So are medical x-rays which I suppose are over a relatively narrow spectrum. Same for nuclear medicine since those doses are also intended to be ionizing to smash up cells.

That leaves consumer products, other, cosmic, terrestrial and internal. Total = 33% of the total.

Most of that 33% will be ionizing in it's own right, not needing the M energy to bust a bond.

Normal background risk:
epa.gov
<For the entire dose of radiation we accumulate over a lifetime from natural background radiation, the risk of developing cancer is estimated to be about one in one hundred. >

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