{"id":813,"date":"2009-03-25T04:41:11","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T09:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clarksite.com\/?p=813"},"modified":"2009-03-25T08:44:29","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T13:44:29","slug":"some-knowledge-for-youabout-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clarksite.com\/?p=813","title":{"rendered":"Some knowledge for you&#8230;about life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had to take some mandatory training classes at work when I returned &#8211; safety related stuff. I was dreading the NORM Awareness (Naturally Occuring Radioactive Material) course, but found I was rather intrueged by the stuff they had to say. So here&#8217;s some knowledge for you.<!--more--><\/p>\n<div>To compare the risk associated with dying in a motor vehicle accident to that of dying in a motor vehicle accident to that of dying from a cancer associated with radiation exposure, a risk factor called &#8220;life expectancy lost&#8221; is often used.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>The risk in terms of &#8220;life expectancy lost&#8221; from a single one-time dose of 1mRem is 2.1 minutes. Compared to some of the stuff more common below.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Smoking 1- 2 packs a day = 6.8 years lost<\/div>\n<div>Overweight by 35% = 964 days lost<\/div>\n<div>Motor Vehicle Accidents = 207 days lost<\/div>\n<div>Lightning = 1.1 days lost<\/div>\n<div>Parachuting\u00a0= 25 days lost<\/div>\n<div>Scuba Diving = 7 days lost<\/div>\n<div>College Football = 0.6 days lost<\/div>\n<div>High School Football = 0.3 days lost<\/div>\n<div>Dog bites = 0.12 days lost<\/div>\n<div>Single dose of 1mRem 2.1 minutes lost<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Crazy!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had to take some mandatory training classes at work when I returned &#8211; safety related stuff. I was dreading the NORM Awareness (Naturally Occuring Radioactive Material) course, but found I was rather intrueged by the stuff they had to say. So here&#8217;s some knowledge for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarksite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarksite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarksite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarksite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarksite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/clarksite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":814,"href":"https:\/\/clarksite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions\/814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarksite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarksite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarksite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}