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I found this table. I picked out a few data points

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sievert#Dose_examples

5–10 μSv: One set of dental radiographs

10–30 mSv: Single full-body CT scan

80 mSv: 6-month stay on the International Space Station

1 Sv: Maximum allowed radiation exposure for NASA astronauts over their career

5 Sv: Calculated dose from the neutron and gamma ray flash, 1.2 km from ground zero of the Little Boy fission bomb, air burst at 600 m

5.1 Sv: Fatal acute dose to Harry Daghlian in 1945 criticality accident

He died 25 days later

54 Sv: Fatal acute dose to Boris Korchilov in 1961 after a reactor cooling system failed on the Soviet submarine K-19 which required work in the reactor with no shielding

He died 6 days later



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