Re: SSI, considers it a serious occurrence

["William G. Nabor" <wgnabor@UCI.EDU>]

> Dear Radsafers:
   Below is a snippet from a recent Radsafe posting on the Swedish transportation incident.  My French is inadequate to the task of making sense out of the item in parenthesis:
> (1 Tbq = 1012 Bq).  Is this a complete error, or is the author confusing Bq with bytes and also leaving out a few zeros?
>
> <snip>
> INSTITUT DE PROTECION ET DE SURETE NUCLEAIRE
>
> 10/01/2002
>
>                      .
>
> 1. Description de l’incident
>
> Ce colis, sous agrément britannique et américain, contenait 1000 billes d'iridium 192 produites par la société suédoise Studsvik d'une activité totale de 366 térabecquererels (1 TBq = 1012 Bq), destinées à un usage industriel de type radiographie.
<snip>

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W. G. Nabor
Senior Health Physicist
University of CA, Irvine
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