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170: The Man Who Drank Radioactive Water (Until His Jaw Fell Off)

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Is There More Than One Microcury in One Bottle?

One microcury works out as 5 millicieverts or 37,000 bacarels. The public has an average dose of one millicievert per year which doesn't include medical and occupational exposure. So just through living your life, you'd get about 1 millicieverted per year. He's getting a lot more just in one bottle. One bottle. And he was only supposed to take a spoonful as well. It's ridiculous that he had the entire thing. If all of my maths is right, within a week and a half, you've had five years. Well, it's British. Ooh Yeah. Very proactive of him.

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