The maximum dose calculated in the report was 9 sieverts per year as a very unlikely worst case.
These workers received a total occupational exposure of 29·41 sieverts.
Levels of radiation detected at these stations are equivalent to dose rates of 70 nano sieverts per hour, consistent with background levels.
There is no chance of them learning much about radiation with rads, rems, roentgens, sieverts, and becquerels that very few of us understand.
A rem is a measure of radiation dose and is now an obsolescent unit being replaced by the sievert.
The maximum permitted dose to workers occupationally exposed to radiation is 50 milli sieverts per year.
Such terms as sieverts and curies mean little to him.
I know that most of us do not understand things like becquerels and sieverts and that sort of thing, but people understand fairly straightforward domestic similes.
