{"id":3673,"date":"2009-05-11T13:58:46","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T13:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/05\/11\/uranium-in-drinking-water\/"},"modified":"2009-05-11T13:58:46","modified_gmt":"2009-05-11T13:58:46","slug":"uranium-in-drinking-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/05\/11\/uranium-in-drinking-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Uranium in Drinking Water?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former student asks about water contamination:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>My mother went and had<br \/>\nour water tested and discovered that we have high uranium and radon<br \/>\nlevels.  Radon is not a big deal, its a gas, and as I have read you would<br \/>\nneed to take a shower for somewhere around 4 hours to suffer damage from<br \/>\nit.  The Uranium is a different story. They are no government set minimums<br \/>\nset for Uranium, what is an appropriate amount of radiation for a year?<br \/>\nAlso wouldn&#8217;t Uranium pass through our bodies before it decayed?  Also how<br \/>\nwould I calculate how much Uranium would be dangerous, in a how many parts<br \/>\nper water?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I have no idea, but I bet somebody reading ScienceBlogs knows something about the safe levels of uranium in drinking water. So, well, what would be a reasonable level of uranium in drinking water?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former student asks about water contamination: My mother went and had our water tested and discovered that we have high uranium and radon levels. Radon is not a big deal, its a gas, and as I have read you would need to take a shower for somewhere around 4 hours to suffer damage from&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/05\/11\/uranium-in-drinking-water\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Uranium in Drinking Water?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,45,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-medicine","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}