[ RadSafe ] Adopting the International System of Units for Radiation Measurements in the US

[Jason Meade]

Having spoken with one person from the US directly involved in helping out
with Fukushima response cleanup and a lot of the difficulties presented
coordination-wise, I'd say there's at least an argument to be made for some
practical advantages to the international standard.

On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 1:26 PM, The Wilsons <pnwnatives at gmail.com> wrote:

> It is not international, first of all, and there is really no advantage to
> the change. Lets not fix what isn't broken!
> Bob Wilson
>
>
> On 9/20/2016 11:10 AM, clayton bradt wrote:
>
>> Let's change the definition of the curie to 10^9 Bq. That way a curie is
>> still a convenient unit for every day work and the conversion between
>> curies and bequerels is simple. 1Ci = 1 GBq.
>>
>> Clayton
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Thanks,
Jason A Meade, AS, BS, MHSA, RRPT, RT(T)
Senior Radiation Safety Specialist
Virginia Commonwealth University


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