Dose Examples
| 25 | rad | -lowest dose to cause clinically observable blood changes |
| 0.2 | krad | -local dose for onset of erythema in humans |
| 0.4 | krad | -whole body LD50 for acute radiation syndrome in humans |
| 1 | krad | -typical radiation tolerance of ordinary microchips |
| 4 to 8 | krad | -typical radiotherapy dose, locally applied |
| 10 | krad | -fatal whole-body dose in Wood River Junction criticality accident |
| 1 | Mrad | -typical tolerance of radiation-hardened microchips |
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