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Originally Posted by David Niven
14 micro siervst x 24x 7=2352 micro siervat or 2.35 milli siervat per week
Or roughly 1 Xray per week.
Scarly, if you are domicile there, 50 Xrays per year!
As I am there for 2 weeks, 2 Xrays equivalent is ok, I suppose
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Just to correct the maths and an assumption ...
The 1.4 (not 14) microSieverts/hr spot reading would add up to 1.4 x 24 x 7 = 235.2 microSieverts/week, i.e you're out by a factor of 10.
But readings were "as high as" 1.4 microsieverts/hr and would have been lower on average. Even if that were the average, your total additional exposure over a fortnight would be ~470 microSieverts, so not so much.
BTW, even if you stood still at the hot spot,
and the radiation stayed at that level all the time,
and you stayed there for a year, you'd only receive an additional ~12 milliSieverts, which is approximately twice the USA background exposure rate (6.24 mSv/yr).