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by sroussey 240 days ago
If you’re in the water, you may get a few feet less of that protection. Particularly if you swim down.
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According to Randall Munroe, you'd actually experience less radiation about a metre under the water in a spent fuel pool then you do walking down the street.

https://what-if.xkcd.com/29/

On a tangent, I kinda love the fact that I've learned more about nuclear physics, orbital mechanics, and relativistic speeds from a poorly drawn webcomic than I have from any other source. (Ok KSP might actually have xkcd beat on orbital mechanics)

Why not both? Kerbal Space Program is XKCD approved:

https://xkcd.com/1356/

It made me very sad when he stopped regularly writing those.