[ComplexSystems]

It says "The individual was decontaminated by radiation protection personnel but had 300 counts per minute detected in their hair."

[madaxe_again]

For reference, this is about the same in your hair that you’d get from a few hours in a pub in the 90s, never mind working in one - surprising amount of radiation in cigarette smoke from polonium and lead-210.

[roenxi]

It does say that. Can you translate that into a measurement of radioactivity & medical risk? I don't think it is obvious.

EDIT The report below it seems to literally be "nothing interesting happened". The thresholds here for something to be reportable are very low. Frankly I don't know why this story is upvoted so much but I'm not about to make a bigger deal about it than one sentence.

[sithadmin]

300cpm is lower than what you’d be exposed to on a commercial airline flight (400-900ish cpm).

[doetoe]

But is that the same thing? 300cpm says something about the risk to someone near the worker, not about what the worker has been exposed to

[gblargg]

CPM is a function of the detector sensitivity/size and radiation level.