Russian dose or exposure unit the "ber"

["Vernig, Peter G." <Peter.Vernig@med.va.gov>]

Group,

I am reading "Red Atom", Paul Josephson, and in an early chapter some
extremity exposures were cited as "ber". The text says something like, "Only
a few percent exceeded 1.5 - 5 ber and the average exposure was 0.3 - .5 ber
but the collective dose when working on the inner loop, armatures etc. was
100 to 500 ber."  Anybody have a clue?


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