article_snippet.sent: Every second of the day you are subjected to radiation from compounds in soil, buildings and even your own body.
article_snippet.sent: 10 μSv: Average daily natural radiation .
article_snippet.sent: 2,100 µSv: Annual radiation of a typical person in Europe .
article_snippet.sent: 3,600 μSv: Average annual radiation of a US citizen .
article_snippet.sent: 2,000,000 μSv: Severe and potentially fatal can measure all the relevant types of radiation, in particular neutron radiation produced in the atmosphere.
article_snippet.sent: The measurement is called the 'ambient dose equivalent' and is recorded in microsieverts (µSv).
article_snippet.sent: In the US, this is often measured in a unit called rem and one sievert is equivalent to 100 rem.
article_snippet.sent: In 2012, the total annual radiation exposure of a typical person in Europe, through naturally occurring radiation, came to about 2,100 µSv.
article_snippet.sent: The same year a radiation monitor tracked 131µSv per hour at the site of the Fukushima power plant.
article_snippet.sent: While the average radiation of someone in the US is 3,600µSv.