Glowing With Confusion
I’m teaching a radiation safety course for workers doing a project in a Belgian nuclear plant.
Me: “…while the average dose for the general population in Belgium is two mSv per year—”
Worker: “Oh.”
Me: “Why’d you say, ‘Oh.’?”
Worker: “Those poor people.”
Every attempt to explain failed. It’s a small dose, it’s the value for the natural, background radiation, and it is actually lower than our own country. No joy. To this day, [Worker] is convinced that the Belgians inhabit a deadly radioactive wasteland. Eventually, he failed the test, and I wonder if he did it on purpose.
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