Re: Ci to Bq

[Mike Lantz <mlantz33@cybertrails.com>]

Ok, make it 30 cm.  I wasn't planning to use it outside of the U.S (my
plant specifically).    

However, you have my full agreement.  I think we have given SI units
their chance and I'm tired converting microsieverts and millisieverts
into something that I can use.  Seems to me it's just one way for other
countries to tell a worker who incurred 800 mrem that he incurred only 8
mSv.

And, by the way, IMO, the world record for stupid units is the dose
conversion factors of Sv/Bq in ICRP 30.  I've always said that the
radionuclide that could cause 1 Sv from 1 Bq would have to hurt going
through.  

Mike Lantz
mlantz33@cybertrails.com

"Cook, Lew (LCOO)" wrote:
> 
> I think the stupid thing was changing to SI units.
> 
> Few people I work with use them, still preferring the 20th century units of
> rem and Curies. I always use microR and can never seem to remember how many
> sieverts 33 microR are. These conversion programs help someone like me avoid
> making a mistake by a factor of 10 or 100.
> 
> And what could be more illustrative of the point that differing measurement
> systems cause difficulties than the formula
> 
> D = GEn/6 at one foot
> 
> wherein we mix SI with English units of distance.
> 
> Lew
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