TV radiation
NZPA Boston Colour television sets more than 12 years old give off too much radiation to be used by children, for video games and home /. computers, doctors have said. Colour sets built before January 1970 emitted more radiation than newer models, they said. The radiation was a problem because people sat very close to the television sets when using them as computer screens. The television sets were no problem when used for watching programmes, the doctors said, because people sat further away from them.
“Our calculations suggest that youngsters using older colour televisions for display screens may be at risk from radiation exposure far in excess of the National Council for Radiation Protection and Measurements recommendation of 100 mrem (millirems) per year for persons under 18 years of age," they wrote. They figured that a child who sat 41cm (16 inches) from the set and used it two hours a day received 890 millirems of radiation in the eyes each year. By comparison. a chest X-ray produced between 20 and 30 millirems.
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Press, 4 October 1982, Page 23
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