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Mar 3, 2012

Sizing Up Health Impacts a Year After Fukushima - NYTimes.com

...many of them poorly understand the risks, he said. “Usually, when they discuss these issues, what does it mean to get 15 millisieverts, it’s in anizakaya, a Japanese bar, he said. Fifteen millisieverts is as much radiation as most Americans get in three to five years from natural background radiation and about three-quarters of the amount that most American reactor operators set as an annual limit for their personnel.