Nuclear Exchange Brewing at NRC;Becquerel, Gray and Sievert May Obliterate Curie, Rad and Rem

The Washington Post | July 19, 1989| | Copyright

All right, class, now that you have mastered the metric system, now that you can easily measure in meters, shop in grams and buy gasoline in liters, it's time for the next step: learning to measure radiation exposure by the new International System of Units. Forget the curie, pick up the becquerel.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is trying to decide whether the United States should adopt the international vocabulary of radiation measurement, known as SI from its French initials. An NRC metrication committee-headed by Zoltan Rosztoczy, deputy director of the division of regulatory ...

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