RE: Significant Solar Storm

["Pollan, Paul B." <PBPOLLAN@southernco.com>]

Only too interesting site.  What does NOAA consider the dose of an x-ray to
be.  It's all relative to the KpVa and mA.

Paul Pollan, RRPT
Southern Nuclear 
pbpollan@southernco.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Robert J. Barish [SMTP:robbarish@aol.com]
> Sent:	Friday, July 14, 2000 11:19 AM
> To:	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject:	Significant Solar Storm
> 
> Greetings RADSAFERS:
> 
> If any of you want to see the real-time satellite plots of a significant
> solar particle event happening at the time of this message, you are
> invited
> to take a look at the NOAA website. Go to:
> http://sec.noaa.gov/rt_plots/pro_3d.cgi
> 
> This event (at noon EDT) is somewhere between an S3 and S4 on the NOAA
> solar
> storm space weather scale. If you look at that page:
> http://sec.noaa.gov/NOAAscales/#SolarRadiationStorms
> you'll see that NOAA says this level event is reponsible for a dose rate
> at
> airliner altitudes equivalent to 3-4 x rays per hour. See the
> correspondence
> section in the July issue of Health Physics for more on this.
> 
> Regards to all.
> Rob Barish, CHP
> robbarish@aol.com
> 
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