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Originally Posted by Jedi Ninja
By way of comparison: The newly reported measurements are 400 millisieverts. At Chernobyl, 1000 millisieverts was the reported level after the news blackout was lifted, but the peak was estimated to be 3000 millisieverts.
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I think some sources are mixing up millisieverts (mSv) and microsieverts (μSv). The highest reading I've heard is 8271 μSv which is 8.271 mSv. Those exposures listed above as well as the Chernobyl readings are mSv, each of which is 1000 μSv. That 400 reading reported was probably in μSv, as I'm not aware of any reports of anything higher than 8 mSv.