Sentences with phrase «normal background radiation»

The response was proportional to radiation dose, and in the most contaminated regions, the leaf loss was 40 percent less than in control regions in Ukraine with normal background radiation levels.

These high - energy rays are also easily distinguished from normal background radiation, cutting down on false positives.

Not exact matches

Levels detected in a short duration pulse at the plant itself have reached as high as 8,217 microSieverts per hour, or eight times the dose endured in a typical CT scan and four times the normal dose of background radiation in a year.

Gamma rays form the background of normal radiation in which we all live; it is substantially greater than the exposure we get from imaging scans or should get from exposures in the workplace.

Furthermore, the team concluded that approximately 80 % of the sources of the cosmic background radiation (* 2) within the millimeter / submillimeter wavebands are more «normal galaxies» like those detected by ALMA this time..

The authorities had scanned the area and declared it clean but the Greenpeace team identified hotspots with dangerous levels of radiation, including two places which had levels higher than 5000 times normal background.

In other words, during a normal day, an individual is exposed to background radiation equivalent to nearly 30 years of exposure to the additional radiation from Fukushima now «found at UK sites».

But, if we leave the fission products alone for a few hundred years, they will decay to normal background levels of radiation (Safe enough we don't need to worry about them as much).