In Nagasaki, and later Hiroshima, Dr. Serber and the other scientists measured radiation levels and recorded the damage.
En route to Mars, the device measured radiation levels close to 1.84 millisieverts per day, over 100 times what the average American receives on a daily basis!
Last summer, after nearly three years of study, the E.P.A. said it had measured radiation levels in the southeastern Idaho town of barely 3,000 people and found that hundreds of residents may be in danger.
Measured radiation levels varied from well to well: Water experts and scientists say that more accurate data could be collected once all the 55 wells planned to supply the pipeline have been completed.
The rover has also measured radiation levels with a view to assessing the feasibility of humans spending time on the planet. .
Developed by the Chiba Institute of Technology, the International Rescue System Institute, and Tohoku University in Japan, Quince went into the power plant's reactor 2 building where it measured radiation levels, collected dust samples and video footage.
But after reexamining the region's cancer statistics and measured radiation levels, epidemiologist Steven Wing and his colleagues at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, concluded that more radiation may have escaped than was measured and that the risk of some cancers did rise.
Our findings further agreed with the analysis of yearly measured radiation levels in cow milk (Bq/L) from the different villages, indicating a convex-curve-like association.
Workers measuring radiation levels near the Chernobyl nuclear power station, Ukraine, U.S.S.R., following the 1986 accident.
Japan immediately sent up sniffer planes to try to measure radiation levels.
