Sentences with phrase «sieverts of»

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

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

Not exact matches

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.

(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.)

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

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 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.

Not a huge fan of ALARA, all depends on what one thinks is reasonable, yours may be much different than mine, but do keep exposure with current limits, raising the limits to 500 Rem per year, or 5 Sieverts per year is koo koo for cocoa puffs.