Question

Is one Sievert of radiation equal to one Curie?

Answer 1

Ans. No

# 1 Curie is 3.7 x 10¹⁰disintegrations per second.

# 1 Sievert = 100 rem, where 1 rem is defined as “the dosage in rads (1 rad = 0.01 Gy) that will cause the same amount of biological injury as one rad of X rays or gamma rays”

# Note that Sievert and Curie are two fundamentally different units of radiation – the first denotes the dose or amount of radiation whereas the later denoting the rate of radioactivity. So these two units can’t be compared directly.