Sometimes it can be difficult to understand the wide scale of radiation exposures that are possible, from miniscule (i.e. eating a banana) to huge (i.e. exposure to reactor cores) especially when the terminology sometimes jumps from rads and rems to grays and sieverts. These excellent images are from
http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/radiation-dosage-chart/ and http://xkcd.com/radiation/
Please double-click on the images to view them full size:
http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/radiation-dosage-chart/ and http://xkcd.com/radiation/
Please double-click on the images to view them full size:
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