RADIOACTIVITY.EU.COM

icon THE PHENOMENON

THE PHENOMENON

icon IN DAILY LIFE

IN DAILY LIFE

icon QUESTION OF DOSES

QUESTION OF DOSES

icon AT THE DOCTOR’S

AT THE DOCTOR’S

icon At the laboratory

At the laboratory

icon At the museum

At the museum

icon NUCLEAR ENERGY

NUCLEAR ENERGY

icon RADIOACTIVE WASTE

RADIOACTIVE WASTE

A general public knowledge base dedicated to radioactivity created and maintained by the french physics community

Biological dose units : Sv, mSv

The sievert or Sv is the unit used to measure the biological doses which are the most significant for a living being: : effective dose, equivalent dose, committed dose …. The sievert being a somewhat large unit, the doses are generally expressed in thousandth of a sievert (millisievert or mSv)., The annual effective dose to which people are exposed In Europe is of 4 mSv per person on average. The sievert replace a former unit, the rem : 1 Sv = 100 rem.

Similar definition(s) :

Equivalent Dose

Back to glossary