[ RadSafe ] It's the ICRP recommendations! Fukushima workers versus ISS astronauts ?

[shima]

On 03/26/11 03:09, Jerry Cuttler wrote:
>
> Does anybody know why Fukushima Dai-ichi workers exposed to doses in the
> range of 100 mSv (10 rem) are being sent to hospital, while extended
> residence astronauts on board the International Space Station (ISS), who
> get up to several times that dose, are not ?
>
> Thnx


for one because there's no buses running from ISS to the hospital

also Fukupshima workers are being exposed to radioactive *contamination* 
not just "rays". It is also possible that the japanese are being 
economical with the truth about levels of exposure or the huge 
uncertainty of who gets what.

rgs.