Sentence examples for maximum permissible radiation from inspiring English sources

The Environmental Protection Agency sets a maximum permissible radiation dose for people outside the boundary of the Yucca project, and set a second standard for the maximum dose that they could receive through contamination of well water.

A contaminated area — one that was, say, four times above the maximum permissible post-accident radiation level for human habitation — would stay above that level for nearly a human lifetime.

Some 21 workers have been exposed to more than 100 millisieverts of radiation, the maximum permissible during an emergency, according to Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency NISAA).

The proposed changes in regulation would not reduce the present maximum permissible limits of radioactivity emitted from nuclear power plants.

(The ICRP refers to these values as dose limits; the NCRP refers to them as maximum permissible dose [MPD].) Regulatory authorities require that a radiation worker receive a radiation dose no higher than the dose limit or MPD.

Initial safety analysis, based on the available guidelines for skin exposure to radiation of 15 115 GHz, determined the maximum permissible exposure (MPE).

Although available CT technology differed among panellists, all agreed that 2.5-mm collimation was the maximum permissible (although thinner collimation is recommended when available) and use of low radiation dose protocols is to be employed when the overriding purpose of the study is the evaluation of the colonic lumen, for example as in screening [ 25, 26].

The average human exposure to ambient ultraviolet radiation is around 25 kJ/m/year (in the USA) [ 40] and the ANSI standard maximum permissible exposure limit for photochemical damage for a point source laser beam at 355 nm is 1 J/cm2 [ 41].

With respect to radiation exposure, levels measured at ICU nursing stations have been shown to be below the maximum permissible for non-occupational workers [ 64, 65].

The radiation emanating from the puddle left on the ground was enough to give a bystander the industry's five-year maximum permissible dose in just one hour.

They set the maximum permissible concentration of pollutants.