Guest guest Posted March 21, 2011 Report Share Posted March 21, 2011 hi All, I found this today. This should help clear up some of the info about radiation exposure. I was reading charts that were saying like 26 nGr/h. I never heard of that, but the internatioal community has it's own lingo. The small n means nano. Grey means 100 REM. So a nano grey per hour means it's .01 mRem so 26 nGr/h would be .026 mRem/h. This also explains why an alpha particle is more dangerours than a gamma. The alpha is easier to block though. So there is a lot of info flying around with numbers that could be alarming but with 1/4 of the info, it doesn't tell you shit. Abe or Jon http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/basic-ref/teachers/05.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 21, 2011 Report Share Posted March 21, 2011 hi All, I found this today. This should help clear up some of the info about radiation exposure. I was reading charts that were saying like 26 nGr/h. I never heard of that, but the internatioal community has it's own lingo. The small n means nano. Grey means 100 REM. So a nano grey per hour means it's .01 mRem so 26 nGr/h would be .026 mRem/h. This also explains why an alpha particle is more dangerours than a gamma. The alpha is easier to block though. So there is a lot of info flying around with numbers that could be alarming but with 1/4 of the info, it doesn't tell you shit. Abe or Jon http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/basic-ref/teachers/05.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 21, 2011 Report Share Posted March 21, 2011 hi All, I found this today. This should help clear up some of the info about radiation exposure. I was reading charts that were saying like 26 nGr/h. I never heard of that, but the internatioal community has it's own lingo. The small n means nano. Grey means 100 REM. So a nano grey per hour means it's .01 mRem so 26 nGr/h would be .026 mRem/h. This also explains why an alpha particle is more dangerours than a gamma. The alpha is easier to block though. So there is a lot of info flying around with numbers that could be alarming but with 1/4 of the info, it doesn't tell you shit. Abe or Jon http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/basic-ref/teachers/05.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 21, 2011 Report Share Posted March 21, 2011 hi All, I found this today. This should help clear up some of the info about radiation exposure. I was reading charts that were saying like 26 nGr/h. I never heard of that, but the internatioal community has it's own lingo. The small n means nano. Grey means 100 REM. So a nano grey per hour means it's .01 mRem so 26 nGr/h would be .026 mRem/h. This also explains why an alpha particle is more dangerours than a gamma. The alpha is easier to block though. So there is a lot of info flying around with numbers that could be alarming but with 1/4 of the info, it doesn't tell you shit. Abe or Jon http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/basic-ref/teachers/05.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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