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Old 10-20-2011, 09:53 AM   #12
billybob123
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It's possibly explained in the article, but that's besides the point... wtf is a "becquerel", and why do articles like these that only serve to make mothers further coddle their children always seem to use units of measurement that nobody's ever seen before in order to attempt to back their point of view?
It's a standard unit of radioactivity. Perhaps the article should have used a standard unit of measurement that you would understand?

"18 litres of radioactivity"?

FFS it's the SI unit of radioactivity. (maybe I'm just bitter because I have to track the Bq and microSv per month we use at work)

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