Re: High natural background radiation areas

["Bjorn Cedervall" <bcradsafers@hotmail.com>]

>The text says "Usually is below 0.1 and a square before Sv/h. Normal
>background is in the range of 0.1 microSv/h. Therefore, in the black
>sand the dose rate is 131 microSv/h, good to be signposted as Radiation
Area.
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Thank you,

There was apparently a character translation problem. As we discussed a 
couple of previous times - "micro" should probably always be spelled out in 
computer systems to avoid any risk of misinterpretation,

Bjorn Cedervall    bcradsafers@hotmail.com


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