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1 freaking MILLI sievert

Update #11 · Jun 19, 2012 · 1 comment

Hey Folks!

Just got an email from Pieter Franken with an important piece of information we may have forgotten to mention:

"did we tell them that the SxK Geiger goes up to 1 freaking MILLI sievert, while most geigers just fizzle?"

Exciting! Though, hopefully you'll never see that reading.

-s

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      Creator Pieter Franken on June 21, 2012

      Well, having ability to measure higher levels, allows you to measure the dose rate inside an X-ray machine at the airport (I measured between 400µSv/h to 1mSv/h) or for dentists and other medical workers, allows measurement of X-ray machines, etc. Also useful to measure test sources. Not your daily use need, but having ability to measure high levels is indeed useful at times.

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