/sci/ - Science & Math

>>8565333
XKCD is kind of a shitty site now that it's turned all leftist...

But this chart is fairly accurate.

Looks like you hit your yearly limit for radiation exposure.

Luckily, x-rays have a Q factor of only 1.

Radiologist here. Picture related.

The FDA is closely monitoring all fish caught off the coast of Japan for increased radiation. It's measurably higher, but nowhere near any kind of unsafe levels. A single banana has more Becquerels than several kilograms of the most "radioactive" fish they've found.

Canada's equivalent of the FDA has stopped monitoring imported fish because the levels they have encountered are too low to justify the extra expense or worry.

If you spend a day at the beach and eat a couple bananas, you will likely encounter more ionizing radiation than your entire lifetime exposure to anything relate to the Fukushima plant disaster.

radiation

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Hey /sci/ What was that one game where you create a sort of lifeform from different coloured lines. and each line had a property that could contribute to its survival?

pic unrelated

A Banana is 0.1 µSv
Now do the math

>>4075561
yup, whole section on it: http://sparkcharts.sparknotes.com/

also barcharts which is probably better: http://www.barcharts.com/TradePoint/CategoryBasic?category=330000&categoryName=Law

So /sci/,

I need some advice. I'm about to start applying to grad school and I'm conflicted on what I want to do. Next spring I'll be graduating with a BS in nuclear engineering but last spring, when we got to the meat and potatoes of the major, I realized I hated neutronics but loved plant design (basically a class that's a hodgepodge of mechanical engineering classes with an emphasis on the impact they have to nuclear power plants).

Right now I'm 50/50 on staying with nuclear or switching to mechanical engineering at the graduate level. Assuming I meet the basic requirements for entry, I was going to apply directly to the mechanical engineering departments of the schools I'm looking at, rather than the nuclear departments (all of the schools I'm looking to apply to have both). My plan is to either study fluids or heat transfer in some form. The downside to this is that I fear there will be a much larger pool of applicants applying for mechanical engineering. I'm banking on the fact that my undergrad nuclear curriculum will be a bit more rigorous than that of a mechanical undergrad curriculum. But on the flipside, I fear that there will be a much larger pool of applicants to mechanical graduate programs.

So what should I do? Apply to nuclear and test the waters? Or apply directly to what I want to do?

Also, general graduate school thread.

Ignore the trolls, OP. This is a legitimate concern but fortunately despite what the media has been spewing, you should be fine. Pic related.

TTTTTROLLL THREAD

for a board that usually claims to be too intelligent for social science you guys really fail at noticing this obvious shit

Reposting.