Sentences with word «sievert»

Levels of radiation in the study area ranged from 0.02 to 92.90 micro Sieverts per hour.

It usually only occurs when someone has been exposed to about one sievert of radiation over a relatively short period of time.

Okedele hinted that as of October 30, 2015, the Japan Times «reported that Tokyo Electric power Company (TEPCO) has detected high level Radiation at 9.4 Sieverts outside Reactor containment Vessel # 2.

On Earth, a 1 - sievert dose increases cancer risk by about 5 percent.

The government has increased the allowable dose for workers from 100 milli ¬ sieverts per year to 250 millisieverts per year — five times the annual allowable dose for US radiation workers — to allow emergency operations to continue.

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In the dark and vaporous interior, the robots measured radiation in one area as high as 25 sieverts per hour — enough to kill a person in minutes.

Nearly 530 sieverts of radiation in an hour have been measured near the second reactor in the nuclear plant.

(A sievert is a unit of ionizing radiation equal to 100 rems; a rem is a dosage unit of x-ray and gamma - ray radiation exposure.)

The radiation dose they calculated was 0.66 sieverts, researchers report in the May 31 Science; the agencies» limit for astronauts is 1 sievert.

But as such, their data comes in a hodgepodge of units — see the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency for a good discussion of the difference between grays and sieverts.

The board wants annual doses for workers cut from the present 50 milli - sieverts to 20 mSv.

The dose equivalent for even the shortest round - trip with current propulsion systems and comparable shielding is found to be 0.66 ± 0.12 sievert.

The coefficients for these statistical cancers are known (someone more knowledgeable than I should tell us what they are); they are expressed in incremental cancers of type X (or premature deaths, or some other health effect) per person - rem or person - sievert.

(A sievert is 100 rem.)

TEPCO measured radiation levels at Fukushima's reactor 2 at 530 sieverts per hour, which is higher than the 73 sieverts measured shortly after the disaster.

For context, exposure of 4 sieverts per hour is often enough to kill a person.