Later in the morning, a radiation level of 326 microsieverts was recorded there.
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Tokyo Electric Power Co, which operates the plant, later allowed workers to re-enter after establishing there was no fire and that radiation level in the area had not risen.
The Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan said that on Monday morning, a radiation level of 3, 130 microsieverts per hour was recorded at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, about six times the legal limit.
But perhaps for radon concentration in the air, a radiation level of 5 to 10 picocuries per liter is about right for maximum benefit, speculates Myron Pollycove, a professor emeritus of laboratory medicine and radiology at the University of California, San Francisco.
Many communities across Northern Ireland have campaigned against phone masts over fears that low level radiation could pose a health risk to people living near the ariels.
Many communities across Northern Ireland have campaigned against phone masts over fears that low level radiation could pose a health risk to people living near the installations.
There is a strong argument for ignoring radiation dangers below the level of the Denver dose.
The level of radiation in the seawater is 4, 385 times higher than the legal limit.
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Later Tuesday the level of radiation fell back down again to 1 rem or less.
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These produce radiation at about the level of one dental X-ray in the immediate vicinity and quickly dissipate.
"It is likely that the level of radiation increased sharply due to a fire at Unit 4, " Edano said.
At the Tokai nuclear power plant, some 100 kilometers south of the Fukushima plant, a high level of radiation was observed.
This makes sense: in those areas with a high level of radiation, living things would tend to die or sicken and fail to reproduce.
They conclude that the level of radiation is safe after all.
While the level of radiation is extremely low, some studies have found that over time a small number of cancer cases could result from scanning millions of people a year.
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The Santa Clara County Public Health Department is in contact with the State, and the State will let us know if a significant increase in the level of radiation is detected.
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Residents groups have suggested that until more is known about the effects low-level RF radiation may be having on the long-term health of children, mast construction should be limited in certain areas.
There is no safe level of radiation.
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In one of the examples cited in the report, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has twice raised the acceptable level of radiation damage reactor vessels can sustain, after several plants violated or came close to violating the original standard.
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Japanese government officials stress that the radiation leak at its current level will not cause harm to humans at least 30 kilometers away.
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He therefore gave his models a series of decade-long tests beginning with the real climatic conditions (level of solar radiation, ocean temperature and so on) on 80 different start dates from 1982 to 2001.
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Previously, the commission held that the amount of radiation released from FDI warranted only a level 5 designation on the International Nuclear Event Scale (which runs from 1 to 7).
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The UK government's Chief Scientific Adviser Sir John Beddington, meanwhile, has had to revise his previously optimistic assessment to include the "worst case scenario" of radiation reaching Tokyo, albeit at a level which could be protected against.
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Zeitlin and his colleagues found voyagers could be exposed to between 554 and 770 millisieverts of ionizing radiation during the trip, depending on the level of solar activity.
However, those who are exposed to radiation at work are allowed to receive up to 50 times the normal level.
Because we are about 5, 000 miles from Japan, and radiation is dispersed and diluted over distance, it is highly unlikely that any significant level would reach our shores.
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Radiation readings on Thursday showed levels in water in Tokyo had fallen back below the danger level, but the municipal authorities are distributing thousands of bottles of water to households with infants.
Eating a bag of potato chips a day gives you 100 times this level, but no one cares since the fat and salt will kill you a lot faster than any radiation.
Separately to the privacy concerns, some health officials feared the Rapiscan 1000SP scanner, which uses low-level X-rays to generate the image viewed by screeners, might expose passengers to unsafe levels of radiation.
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