Beach sand, Vromos bay (Bulgaria)

[cicastol]

This is Vromos Beach



Is 0.20 MSv dangerous? How dangerous can it be??

Hi, it's 0,20 uSv NOT 0.2MSv !!

0,2uSv is safe level :-)

[gwgw]

Natural gamma background in some places (say the town of Samokov) measures higher than that. If you are interested, you can find some places where background is much higher (1 uSv/h and even more) right next to Sofia, those are the now-closed-but-poorly-recultivated uranium mines near Seslavtsi or Gabra. There are even reports of mine material left along the road, even videos like that - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sdr0FU7Hd2Q

People live nearby and from what I've read, it doesn't correlate to higher mortality rates or lower life expectancy. I wouldn't live there though.

[gwgw]

R0B0T,

I recently went on a short vacation near Sozopol, so I drove by that beach...unfortunately I didn't have time to stop by. Apparently though there is a huge camping site between Chernomorets and Atia. There were quite a lot of campers in tents. They were set up right on the beach. Is it like that every year? Apparently people there don't give a damn about radiation warnings.

Not that they should that much though. I slept for one night in Burgas. It happened to me before and it happened again. About 2AM, I woke up, windows open with an awful smell of a petrochemistry products - somewhat resembling asphalt but not quite. Guess that's from the oil refinery. It was so bad I was about to puke a couple of times. Had to close the windows. Subsequently, I opened the window to check whether it was gone. It stayed until about 5AM. Couldn't sleep. I think that's much much more concerning as compared to that Vromos beach.