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Radiation and You

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Mar 29, 2011
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As the dimensions of the nuclear catastrophe grow at the Fukushima reactors following the great Honshu earthquake on Japan's northeastern coast, the world is becoming increasingly well-versed in gradations of Seiverts, Roentgens, Grays, Rems, Curies, Becquerels and Coulombs.

Many of these measures are named for the scientists who developed the scale by w…

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