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The worst-case scenario Energy Department planners could envision for a fire at Los Alamos would release less than 25 rems or radiation — a dosage that is below short and long-term health concerns, according to a 1998 Environmental Impact Statement for operating the lab written by the department.

Airplane deployed to monitor air over N.M. fire 2011

The worst-case scenario Energy Department planners could envision for a fire at Los Alamos would release less than 25 rems or radiation — a dosage that is below short and long-term health concerns, according to a 1998 Environmental Impact Statement for operating the lab written by the department.

Airplane deployed to monitor air over N.M. fire 2011

Near the plant, the radiation levels dangerously escalated to 400 milliseiverts/hour or 40 rems/hour in U.S. parlance.

Marvin Resnikoff: Doomsday Scenario at Fukushima Marvin Resnikoff 2011

One hundred rems can cause radiation sickness and 500 rems likely will cause death.

Japan's Nuclear Crisis Escalates Yuka Hayashi 2011

I estimate, using the standard software, Microshield, dose rates on the order of 3000 rems/hour, 200 meters above the fuel pool.

Marvin Resnikoff: Conflicting Stories Surround Fukushima Fuel Pool #4 Marvin Resnikoff 2011

Near the plant, the radiation levels dangerously escalated to 400 milliseiverts/hour or 40 rems/hour in U.S. parlance.

Marvin Resnikoff: Doomsday Scenario at Fukushima Marvin Resnikoff 2011

Adding to the confusion, some scientists, especially in the U.S., use the older terms curies, rads and rems to describe radiation.

Radiation Math: How Do We Count the Rays? Carl Bialik 2011

Data collected 40 kilometers from the Fukushima's nuclear accident show cumulative levels as high as 9.5 rems 95 mSv -- nearly five times the international annual occupational dose.

Robert Alvarez: Japan's Nuclear Catastrophe Leaves Little to Celebrate on Children's Day Robert Alvarez 2011

Although cheery for most of the trip, Yuri's anger about the fate of the people of Pripyat at the hands of Ukraine's former Soviet masters became all too clear: People were told that they had received a radiation dose of no more than 25 rems, enough to cause only minor illness.

Chernobyl 25 years on: a poisoned landscape 2011

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says exposure to five to 10 rems of radiation will alter a person's blood chemistry, while 55 rems will also bring on nausea. and fatigue.

Radiation's Effect Depends on Amount Gautam Naik 2011