... about doses due to the radiation leak in Japan: see here. This is the first person who has drawn a comparison with radiotherapy doses, something I'd fought shy of doing on this blog as it can be misleading. (I'll be getting around 50,000 mSv over 5 weeks, albeit to a small part of me)
This does not belittle the fact that the Japan situation is a mess (and friends in the UK civil industry are astonished at how some of it has been handled) but it does give an alternative perspective to some of the other horror stories the media are happily peddling.
I should note that I totally disagree with the writer's idea of moving from ALARA which is a really good practice whatever industry and whatever unchosen risk is being assessed. I guess the important thing is to know the difference between ALARA and safe/dangerous.
