Don't plant your bum on any Cornish granite then. Amazing how many civilisations around
the world have survived and thrived while living amongst what H&S would have you believe
is dangerous doses of radiation/radon gas.
The radiation level on wartime instrument panels causing cancer came via the fact that the
instrument makers used to lick their brushes when painting the dials/hands/numbers etc.
Mouth cancers were not uncommon with such close contact.
Hardly surprising under the circumstances!
Example
"In Colorado and other Rocky Mountain states (Wyoming, New Mexico, Utah), where the uranium content in soil is abnormally high, and where the high altitude reduces the amount of air above that shields people from cosmic rays, natural radiation is nearly twice the national average; but in Florida, where the altitude is minimal and the soil is deficient in radioactive materials, natural radiation is 15% below the national average. Thus, the radiation exposures in the highly publicized incidents are about equal to the extra radiation you get from spending five days in Colorado. Of course, millions of people spend their whole lives in Colorado, and as it turns out, the cancer rate in that state is 35% below the national average. Leukemia, probably the most radiation-specific type of cancer, occurs at only 86% of the national average rate in Colorado, and at 61% of that rate in the other high-radiation Rocky Mountain states. This is a clear demonstration that radiation is not one of the important causes of cancer."
Natural Radiation is just that - natural. Jobsworths in H&S should justify their draconian regulations IMHO
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