The maximum dose calculated in the report was 9 sieverts per year as a very unlikely worst case.
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These workers received a total occupational exposure of 29·41 sieverts.
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Levels of radiation detected at these stations are equivalent to dose rates of 70 nano sieverts per hour, consistent with background levels.
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There is no chance of them learning much about radiation with rads, rems, roentgens, sieverts, and becquerels that very few of us understand.
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A rem is a measure of radiation dose and is now an obsolescent unit being replaced by thesievert.
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The maximum permitted dose to workers occupationally exposed to radiation is 50 milli sieverts per year.
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Such terms as sieverts and curies mean little to him.
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I know that most of us do not understand things like becquerels and sieverts and that sort of thing, but people understand fairly straightforward domestic similes.
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Thesievertrepresents the equivalent biological effect of the deposit of a joule of radiation energy in a kilogram of human tissue.
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Exposure to 1sievertis associated with a 5 percent increase in risk for developing fatal cancer.
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Sievertwas recommended to leave the sport after his injury.
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This stochastic risk is expressed by thesievert, which has the same dimensions as the gray.
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Onesievertcarries with it a 5.5% chance of eventually developing cancer.
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Thesievertunit is used in the report of the effective dose.
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Doses greater than 1sievertreceived over a short time period are likely to cause radiation poisoning, possibly leading to death within weeks.
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