Getting within 1 cm of the capsule would deliver a dose rate of 16.65 Sv/hr (Sieverts per hour), a full 10,000 times higher thanks to the inverse square law – note the unit change. Picking up ...

2 and No. 3 reactors. Radiation levels were estimated at 10 sieverts per hour, a lethal dose for anyone who spends even an hour in the vicinity, according to experts. The finding would make it ...

The Nevada Test Site released over four million “sieverts” of radiation across the United States. One “sievert” is a unit equivalent dose producing a 5.5.% chance of a fatal cancer in a human.

This is why. Five sieverts of radiation is considered a lethal dose for humans. Inside the Head End Shear Cave, where nuclear fuel rods were extracted from their casings and cut into pieces before ...

X-ray tomography, or X-ray computed tomography, is a method for generating 3-dimensional imaged volumes from 2-dimensional X-ray image slices. X-ray imaging is based on the differential absorption ...

The radiation level inside the containment vessel of the No. 2 reactor is several tens of sieverts per hour, enough to kill most people within a few minutes. The only way to remove the fuel debris ...

The workers reported swollen fingers and red spots on their hands, with radiation exposure levels of 94 sieverts and 28 sieverts, far exceeding the safety threshold of 0.5 sieverts. The NSSC ...

The Sieverts found that a traditional day care setting was too intense for their child. However, finding a preschool or day ...

A part of fuel assembly packaging was also found. Extremely high radiation of up to 8 sieverts an hour -- beyond a level permissible to human exposure -- was observed under the reactor core.