Daily Archives: August 31, 2017


The BED is a unit of radiation equal to the amount of radiation in one banana.
There are many units of radioactivity, but the ways they are used can be confusing. These units express how often a radioactive source produces radiation, how radiation interacts with matter and how radiation is absorbed and affects biological systems. These units can be broken down into four categories: Radioactivity, exposure, […]

How Radiation Is Measured – Units of Radioactivity