Sentence examples for msv from inspiring English sources

The new rules put a limit on total public radiation exposures of 0.3 millisieverts (mSv2) per year, and said that "in most cases we would expect them to be no greater than 0.02 mSv per year".

This compares to average UK doses from all sources, including natural background and medical exposures of about 2.6 mSv per year, says the EA.

Background radiation delivers the average person a radiation dose of about 3 millisieverts (mSv) a year.

The government has allowed the residents of some evacuated municipalities to return to areas where the annual dosage is 20 millisieverts (ie 20 mSv) or below, pending further efforts at decontamination.

With the building's shielding ruptured however, some degree of radiation leakage was inevitable.The radiation level around the No. 3 reactor meanwhile has risen to 400 millisieverts (mSv): much higher than it had been when last reported and positively damaging to human health.

A fortnight after the disaster, the authorities screened the thyroids of 1,149 children exposed to radiation and found that the maximum equivalent thyroid dose was 35 millisieverts (mSv).

Only six of the bronze medal-winning England team, and just four of the vanquished Germans, were in their respective starting lineups at Duisburg's MSV-Arena.

It has also said that some displaced residents will be able to return home during the day even where the dosage is up to 50 mSv/year.

Radiation there, in some areas, is in the range of 5 mSv/year or higher (they have been checked only sporadically).

He accepts that some residents might refuse to return until exposure falls further – the limit recommended by the International Commission on Radiological Protection is 1 mSv/yr.

Japan's central government refined its policy in December 2011, defining evacuation zones as "areas where cumulative dose levels might reach 20 millisieverts per year [20 mSv/yr]," the typical worldwide limit for nuclear power plant engineers and other radiation workers.