Doses greater than 1 sievert received over a short time period are likely to cause radiation poisoning, possibly leading to death within weeks.
The sievert unit is used in the report of the effective dose.
One sievert carries with it a 5.5% chance of eventually developing cancer.
This stochastic risk is expressed by the sievert, which has the same dimensions as the gray.
Sievert was recommended to leave the sport after his injury.
Exposure to 1 sievert is associated with a 5 percent increase in risk for developing fatal cancer.
The sievert represents the equivalent biological effect of the deposit of a joule of radiation energy in a kilogram of human tissue.
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.
