Re: japan doses

[Jim Muckerheide <jmuckerheide@delphi.com>]

The doses have been so reported for a week or so. But it seems to me the
question is: "How were these doses determined?" That seems not to have
been addressed anywhere. Calculated? measured? biological response? 

Originally there was also a lot of discussion of whether "the doses"
should be being reported in Gy or Sv, but not really what RBE for
neutrons is (should be) applied to distinguish a dose in Gy vs. Sv.
(Neutron spectrum?)

Does anyone have info? an idea?

Regards, Jim Muckerheide
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James Deye wrote:
> 
> In answer to the question about doses in the Japan accident.
> This week's issue of Science (vol 286) #8 pp 209 states that the higest
> exposed individual received 17 Sv while the second person got 10 Sv  and the
> third 3 Sv. In all "three workers were hospitalized and more than 60 others,
> including three rescue workers and seven golfers on a neighboring course,
> were found to have been exposed to high levels od radiation." A new therapy
> using stem cells is being tried in place of bone marrow transplants.
> J. Deye
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