Re: Your expert perspective... -Reply

[avest@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Albert Lee Vest)]

>From: FRAMEP@ORAU.GOV
>
>If the purpose of the switch to SI were to make the numbers appear
>smaller, then why would we have replaced the curie with the
>becquerel?
>
>Paul Frame
>

Perhaps it's to make the numbers we cite for levels of *natural*
radioactivity (with which we compare effluent releases) appear so large,
that the amounts released in effluents couldn't possibly make any difference
~(:-^] ?

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