becquerel

• “A becquerel is a measurement of radioactive intensity.”

  CNN.com

• “A becquerel is the measure of the radioactive decay of one unstable atom; a terabecquerel is a trillion becquerels.”

  The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - washingtonpost.com

• “A becquerel is a frequently used measure of radiation, and a petabecquerel is a million billion becquerels.”

  NYT > Home Page

• “He says that before the crisis he had never heard of microsieverts and becquerel, the units of radiation measurement that he now spends so much time studying.”

  Voice of America: Japanese Towns Struggle to Adapt to New Reality

• “The amount found ranged from 2.2 to 8.0 becquerels per kilogram of iodine-131, far below the 100 becquerel per kilogram stipulated in the government's safety limit for milk and dairy products.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Japan Calls Nuclear Adviser's Exit a 'Misunderstanding'

• “A becquerel represents one radioactive event per second.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Japan Links More Cattle to Cesium-Tainted Feed

• “From one milk sample from Iidate—the same village with the tainted water—5,200 becquerel per kilogram of iodine-131 was detected, about 17 times the 300-becquerel limit set by law.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Radiation in Food Rises

• “From a sample from the town of Kunimi about 40 miles northwest of the plant—the most distant among the four locations—1,400 becquerel per kilogram of iodine-131 was detected.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Radiation in Food Rises

• “The normal amount set by Japanese law is 2,000 becquerel per kilogram.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Radiation in Food Rises

• “In raw milk samples collected from a farm in the town of Kawamata in Fukushima prefecture, up to 1,510 becquerel per kilogram of iodine-131 were detected, about five times the limit of 300 becquerel per kilogram set by law.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Elevated Radioactivity Found in Japanese Milk, Spinach

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