AW: [ RadSafe ] [nuclear news] Quick facts: The effects ofradiationfrom a dirty bomb

[Franz Schönhofer]

John,

Yes this has been discussed extensively on RADSAFE in previous years.....

It seems to be a political question, where the USA wants to demonstrate its
independence of the "rest of the world"....

I believe that this "war of units" is rather funny. We Europeans have no
really problems with it - for instance all our joints of water- and
gas-pipes are without exceptions in inches! We have a dual system of screws
in both inches and cm. Nobody seems to be really confused by this incoherent
system.... 

Please do not tell me that US mechanics would not be able to handle these
differences!

Best regards,

Franz
  



Franz Schoenhofer, PhD
MinRat i.R.
Habicherg. 31/7
A-1160 Wien/Vienna
AUSTRIA


-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: John R Johnson [mailto:idias at interchange.ubc.ca] 
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 04. Juli 2007 18:49
An: Franz Schönhofer; 'Jeff Terry'; 'radsafe Radsafe'
Betreff: Re: [ RadSafe ] [nuclear news] Quick facts: The effects
ofradiationfrom a dirty bomb

Franz

I agree that the US should "keep up" with the rest of the world. If I 
remember it correctly from when I worked at PNL (now PNNL), the DOE was 
going to change in ~1998.

John
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Franz Schönhofer" <franz.schoenhofer at chello.at>
To: "'Jeff Terry'" <terryj at iit.edu>; "'radsafe Radsafe'" <radsafe at radlab.nl>
Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2007 8:15 AM
Subject: AW: [ RadSafe ] [nuclear news] Quick facts: The effects 
ofradiationfrom a dirty bomb


The US population is just a few percent of the world wide one. All over the
world everybody uses Sv and Bq. The US use already the SI units in all
scientific publications. Get used to SI units!!!

Franz

Franz Schoenhofer, PhD
MinRat i.R.
Habicherg. 31/7
A-1160 Wien/Vienna
AUSTRIA


-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] Im Auftrag
von Jeff Terry
Gesendet: Dienstag, 03. Juli 2007 23:47
An: radsafe Radsafe
Betreff: Re: [ RadSafe ] [nuclear news] Quick facts: The effects of
radiationfrom a dirty bomb

Of course, Canadians are different from Americans.
Here in the U. S. we take our radiation dose in mrem.

Jeff



On Jul 3, 2007, at 2:31 PM, John R Johnson wrote:

> Sandy
>
> Are Canadians different than Americans? -:)
>
> John
> ***************
> John R Johnson, PhD
> CEO, IDIAS, Inc.
> Vancouver, B. C.
> Canada
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> idias at interchange.ubc.ca
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sandy Perle" <sandyfl at cox.net>
> To: <radsafe at radlab.nl>; <powernet at hps1.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 12:57 PM
> Subject: [ RadSafe ] [nuclear news] Quick facts: The effects of
> radiation from a dirty bomb
>
>>
>> Radiation exposure is measured by a unit called a millisievert (mSv).
>> Most Canadians can expect to receive between two and four mSv each
>> year.
>>
>>
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