Typo on Milk Sampling Table?

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 2011-04-06 15:03

The milk sampling table appears to have a typo for the 4/16 I131 cell. It says that at .22 Bq/L , 3800 liters of milk would have to be consumed to be equivalent to a round-trip cross-continental flight.

But the table also shows 3800 liters in parentheses for the 4/4/2011 sample, which had .70 Bq/L. One of them is presumably off, probably the 4/16 calculation.

See also the 4/11 cell for iodine, which also has 3800 liters in parentheses.
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While I'm at it, maybe you should have a column that totals up the radiation?

Thanks for your work on this project. It's nice to have an independent factual grounding on this issue.

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Thank you for finding that

Submitted by bandstra on Wed, 2011-04-06 16:01.

Thank you for finding that typo -- we copied over the incorrect numbers from our analysis code. I also noticed that we had copied over the data point for I-131 on 4/8 incorrectly -- it was below the detection limit, not 0.30 Bq/L (this can be verified with the plot).

Your idea of calculating the total dose is an excellent one. We'll try to do that in an understandable way.

Mark [BRAWM Team Member]

How much iodine do most

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 2011-04-06 15:06.

How much iodine do most people drink on cross continental flights? Is that a first class thing?