Re: Air crew exposures, regulatory issues

["Otto G. Raabe" <ograabe@ucdavis.edu>]

December 28, 2000
Davis, CA

If flight crews spend 1500 hours at high altitude per year at 5 uSv per
hour, they would receive about 7.5 mSv per year. That is slightly over 30%
the 20 mSv annual limit. 

Otto
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