On March 15, 33 experts from the Department’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) arrived in Japan along with more than 17,200 pounds of equipment. After initial deployments at U.S. consulates and military installations in Japan, these teams have utilized their unique skills, expertise and equipment to help assess, survey, monitor and sample areas for radiation. The 33 team members joined another six DOE personnel already in Japan.
3. NNSA’s Consequence Management Response Teams have collected approximately 100,000 total field measurements taken by DOE, DoD, and Japanese monitoring assets
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5. Each measurement corresponds to the radiation a person receives in one hour at that location. AMS data is presented as exposure rate 1 meter from the ground at the time the measurements occurred
18. EPA guidelines call for public health actions if exposure exceeds 1000 mRem over 4 days * Source: NRC: http://nrc.gov/images/about-nrc/radiation/factoid2-lrg.gif