Re: What are the Russian Radiation Limits?

[Franz Schoenhofer <schoenho@via.at>]

At 23:01 03.02.1999 -0600, you wrote:
>Llewellyn, Phillip L. wrote:
>
>> Thank you for the information.
>> I wanted to make sure that your country uses mSv.
>> Do you also use Bq for lose contamination?
>>
>> Phillip Llewellyn
>
>Yes.
>Though some uses Ci.
>Ilia Yarmoshenko
>
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Has this changed now? All information about the Chernobyl accident released
used and uses the old units of for instance Ci/km2, nCi/kg, mrem, R/h
......, except in international scientific journals, where the use of SI
units is a condition for publication.

Franz


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