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Symptom benchmarks
Symptoms of acute radiation (dose received within one day):[4]
0 – 0.25 Sv (0 – 250 mSv): None
0.25 – 1 Sv (250 – 1000 mSv): Some people feel nausea and loss of appetite; bone marrow, lymph nodes, spleen damaged.
1 – 3 Sv (1000 – 3000 mSv): Mild to severe nausea, loss of appetite, infection; more severe bone marrow, lymph node, spleen damage; recovery probable, not assured.
3 – 6 Sv (3000 – 6000 mSv): Severe nausea, loss of appetite; hemorrhaging, infection, diarrhea, peeling of skin, sterility; death if untreated.
6 – 10 Sv (6000 – 10000 mSv): Above symptoms plus central nervous system impairment; death expected.
Above 10 Sv (10000 mSv): Incapacitation and death.
See also Radiation poisoning.
SI multiples and conversions
Frequently used SI multiples are the millisievert (1 mSv = 0.001 Sv) and microsievert (1 μSv = 0.000001 Sv).
An older unit for the equivalent dose, is the rem,[3] still often used in the United States. One sievert is equal to 100 rem:
1 rem = 0.01 Sv = 10 mSv
1 mrem = 0.01 mSv = 10 μSv
1 Sv = 100 rem
1 mSv = 100 mrem = 0.1 rem
1 μSv = 0.1 mrem
The conventional units for its time derivative is mSv/h.
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Originally posted by MainLineThis
Reply to post by Firefly_
No...the single most important challenge the human race is facing is the ignorant believe on religion.....which has killed MILLIONS more than modern mans nuclear energy.
Funny. Those that are hysterical about this non-event lack the intelligence to look at the big picture even when trying to use historical references.....typical internet ignorance.
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Originally posted by MainLineThis
Reply to post by Firefly_
No...the single most important challenge the human race is facing is the ignorant believe on religion.....which has killed MILLIONS more than modern mans nuclear energy.
Funny. Those that are hysterical about this non-event lack the intelligence to look at the big picture even when trying to use historical references.....typical internet ignorance.
Originally posted by MidnightTide
In my opinion, Japan is uninhabitable....it just depends on how many hundreds of thousand of Japanese die before they realize they have to give up their homeland.edit on 1-8-2011 by MidnightTide because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by circuitsports
whoa so what your saying is the bottom of the smoke stacks that vented radioactive steam are in fact radioactive - lol