Re: SSI, considers it a serious occurrence

["Franz Schoenhofer" <franz.schoenhofer@CHELLO.AT>]

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-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----

Von: William G. Nabor <wgnabor@UCI.EDU>

An: RADSAFE@list.vanderbilt.edu <RADSAFE@list.vanderbilt.edu>

Datum: Montag, 28. Jänner 2002 20:45

Betreff: Re: SSI, considers it a serious occurrence





>    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?



1TBq is 10 E12 Bq or 1 000 000 000 000 Bq. So an "E" was left out. Otherwise

the units for activity are the same in French and English, unless you clinch

to Curies.... A big difference makes the "billion" in English and German

respectively: One billion is in English 10E9, whereas it is in German 10E12

and 10E9 is in German "Milliarde". But these numbers, when used for money,

are so much beyond our imagination, that there is little problem when

confusing them!



Best regards,



Franz









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