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- noun metrology Symbol for the
terabecquerel , anSI unit ofradioactivity equal to 1012becquerels .
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Examples
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According to the Daily Yomiuri, Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) announced that between 10 and 17 million curies (270,000- 360,000 TBq) of radioactive materials were released to the atmosphere before early April, a great deal more than previous official estimates.
Robert Alvarez: Japan's Nuclear Catastrophe Leaves Little to Celebrate on Children's Day Robert Alvarez 2011
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Even though atmospheric releases blew mostly out to sea and appear to have declined dramatically, NISA reports that Fukushima's nuclear ruins are discharging about 4,200 curies of iodine-131 and cesium-137 per day into the air 154 TBq.
Robert Alvarez: Japan's Nuclear Catastrophe Leaves Little to Celebrate on Children's Day Robert Alvarez 2011
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While 160 TBq of noble gases and 2 TBq of gaseous iodine were apparently released, little escaped from the building itself.
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In October of 1957 the Windscale facility, as it was called then, was the location of a nuclear accident which allegedly released the following inventories of radioactivity to the environment: 0.7 PBq 131I; 0.04 PBq 137Cs; 4 TBq 89Sr and 0.3 TBq 90Sr
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED Mike Rivero 2010
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1 MBq (27 microcuries) 1 GBq (27 millicuries) 37 GBq (1 curie) 1 TBq (27 curies)
Radiation units 2009
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... total of some 540 TBq (14,500 Ci) of thorium, uranium, transuranic, and other ...
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2009
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... total of some 540 TBq (14,500 Ci) of thorium, uranium, transuranic, and other ...
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2009
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