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. 1970 Jan-Feb;74A(1):1–6. doi: 10.6028/jres.074A.001

Table 1.

Summary of 137Cs open air exposure-rate measurements with all data corrected to August 24, 1967

Measurement No. Nominal source activity (mCi) Nominal chamber-to-source distance (meters) Measured X˙ multiplied by D2
(mR · m2 · h−1)
A verage X˙D2
(mR · m2 · h−1)
Avg. X˙D2 corrected for room scatter (mR · m2 · h−1)
1 500 0.5 137.94
2 500 .5 137.62 137.83 137.20
3 500 .5 137.92
4 500 .5 137.36
5 500 .5 136.82 137.14 136.51
6 500 .5 137.24
7 500 1.0 139.58
8 500 1.0 140.03 139.80 137.27
10 50 0.5 15.05
11 50 .5 14.89 14.97 14.90
12 5 .5 1.34 1.33
13 100 .5 36.11 35.94