To calculate the value of stochastic health risk in Sieverts, the physical quantity absorbed dose is converted into ...

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 ...

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 exceptionally difficult ...

Radiation readings of 4 sieverts per hour were detected on their surfaces in fiscal 2019, enough to kill half of all the people in the immediate vicinity within an hour. TEPCO plans to introduce a ...

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.