[USMA 95] Re: Report of error in converting between meters and legacy feet.

Maybe not. Might be an exponential relationship, not a linear one between levels and cancer cases. On Feb 21, 2016 11:57 PM, "Parker Willey Jr." wrote: > Hi: > > I was watching 60 minutes this evening on CBS. > > There was a report at the end of the program by Anderson

[USMA 97] Re: Another Area of Metric Conversion - Nuclear Medicine

Qualifying a 1 Sv acute dose as "nasty but not lethal" could be a hopefful understatement. At least one fatality is reported as a result of an acute dose less than 5 Sv, according to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sievert#Personal_dose_equivalent Note that the same dose spread over

[USMA 96] Another Area of Metric Conversion - Nuclear Medicine

I noticed that in last night's "Madame Secretary" on CBS, one of the few good drama programs left, when the Secretary of State's husband suffers radiation poisoning from an Islamic dirty bomb, the physician in charge says that he has received "one Sievert" of radiation, which is described as