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Re: Trivial-Adam-Mohan Radiological Units (TAMRU)
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Von: gaxt <gordon-axt@UIOWA.EDU>
An: 'radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu' <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>
Datum: Donnerstag, 06. Juni 2002 23:29
Betreff: RE: Trivial-Adam-Mohan Radiological Units (TAMRU)
>Finally, something we can use!
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Paul_Prichard@DOM.COM [SMTP:Paul_Prichard@DOM.COM]
>Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 2:44 PM
>To: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
>Subject: Trivial-Adam-Mohan Radiological Units (TAMRU)
>
>The following is excerpted from an article of the same name written by a
>John A. Adam in the March 1982 issue of Nuclear News.
>
>Trivial-Adam-Mohan Radiological Units (TAMRU)
>
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These units don't not have a good basis, since cosmic ray activity is
variable over time and depends on other factors like air density (= air
pressure), air moisture etc. Therefore they cannot be used for the accurate
measurements, which are necessary in nowadays evaluation of radiological
impact of for instance neutrinos.
About 25 years ago there was a man working in the Radiation Protection
Department of the Austrian Ministry for Health and Environment Protection,
whose name was "Vychytil". He was afraid of every kind of radiation and his
credo was to reduce doses to zero. So we invented as a practical unit for
dangerous air contamination the "Vychocurie per cubic lightyear", where a
Vychocurie was 10E-21 Curies, the cubic lightyear you can calculate
yourself!
Franz
(Yes, we had Curies then. How fine, that we don't have them any more!)
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