Re: SI-units for radiation and activity -Reply

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Von: Roger Fenner <rfenner@mail.state.tn.us>
An: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Datum: Freitag, 20. März 1998 19:21
Betreff: Re: SI-units for radiation and activity -Reply


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>Scott Rifkin wrote:
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>Also, has anyone given any thought to how the anti's will use this?  The
>units SOUND bigger, last week a few curies now this week a few billion
>bequerel thingies?
>
>Ahhh yes but remember this A few curries exposed you to hundreds of
>rem and a few billion becquerel thingies only exposes you to a couple of
>sieverts.
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>Roger Fenner
>State of Tennessee
>rfenner@mail.state.tn.us
>

I would refuse to tell people that a few Curies are less "dangerous" than a
megabequerel. A MBq/l of Cs-137 in milk is as dreadful for the scientist as
a mCi/l. I cannot see the difference for the "antis". They will use a
picoBequerel as a dreadful unit, if they choose so.

Sorry, this is no convincing argument.

Franz