RE: Russian dose or exposure unit the "ber"

["Tsurikov, Nick" <nick.tsurikov@iluka.com>]

Dear Peter,

Eugene is absolutely correct in the earlier reply.  The "ber" IS the
"biological equivalent roetgen".  There are probably other people on the
list who speak Russian anyway and will confirm this.

Kind regards
Nick Tsurikov
Eneabba, Western Australia
http://eneabba.net/ <http://eneabba.net/> 



		-----Original Message-----
		From:	Vernig, Peter G. [mailto:Peter.Vernig@med.va.gov]
		Sent:	Friday, 18 August 2000 5:15
		To:	Multiple recipients of list
		Subject:	Russian dose or exposure unit the "ber"

		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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