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Independent French radiation commission warns Europe that health risk from Fukushima fallout is “no longer negligible”
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 1229907:MV8xNDQxMjY4XzIzNzYwMDMyXzY5ODQ2MENG] [quote:jellybean224 967614] The rem is used to discuss biological absorption of the radiation. Since the rem is actually a large unit: 1000 millirem = 1 rem source: http://www.jlab.org/div_dept/train/rad_guide/fund.html On converting cpm (the observed radiation) to rems (the absorbed radiation) I could only find this so far: Considering a background given count rate of about 200 cpm, the expected surficial (1st centimeter) dose-equilavent rate at 1000 cpm is therefore approximated to be 6E-6 rem/h. Note that this is the estimated dose rate in the first centimeter and that the 1-cm "deep" dose rate would be lower by about 20 percent. source: http://www.hps.org/publicinformation/ate/q128.html [b]We need an expert to advise on this, because this text seems to suggest that when the background radiation detected from the geiger counter reaches 200 cpms, we would absorb MORE than the allowable limits for a year within one hour. [/b] So far, in West L.A., the cpm's range from 48-68. Seems like getting out of town at about 100 cpms would be a good idea. [/quote]this is called "scientific notation" 1.6E-03 means 1.6 times negative ten to the power 3 The easy way is to move the decimal point the given number of places to the right or left. If the number is positive, move it to the right. If the number is negative, move to point to the left. here, the number is negative 3 so you would move the decimal point in 1.6 three places to the left, so it becomes: 0.0016 If the number wasn't negative but positive, i.e. if it was: 1.6E+03 then you would move the point three places to the right, so it becomes: 1600 What does scientific notation actually mean? E+03 means "times ten to the power 3" or 10 x 10 x 10 which is 1000 so 1.6E+03 means 1.6 x 1000 which is 1600 In your example, 1.6E-03 means 1.6 times NEGATIVE ten to the power of 3 or negative 10 x 10 x 10 i.e. negative 1000. so it means 1.6 x -1000 which is 0.0016 6E-6 would be about .000006 then? On converting cpm (the observed radiation) to rems (the absorbed radiation) I could only find this so far: Considering a background given count rate of about 200 cpm, the expected surficial (1st centimeter) dose-equilavent rate at 1000 cpm is therefore approximated to be 6E-6 rem/h (.000006/h). Note that this is the estimated dose rate in the first centimeter and that the 1-cm "deep" dose rate would be lower by about 20 percent. This could definitely mess up the DOOM a bit, sorry. LOL [/quote]
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Says US west coast has 8-10 times more contamination
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link to enenews.com
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Why is our government not warning our people? This is just crazy.
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