RE: Re: Op-Ed in International Herald Tribune

["Jacobus, John (OD/ORS)" <jacobusj@ors.od.nih.gov>]

Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of NCRP, Cosmic Radiation Exposure of

Airline Crews, Passengers and Astronauts, was published in Health Physics,

Vol. 79, No. 5, November 2000.  Gautam D. Badhwar is the author of

"Radiation Measurements in Low Earth Orbit:  U.S. and Russian Results."

Doses for cosmonauts on Mir averaged from 2.42 to 8.18 cGy.  



Also, NCRP Report No. 98 (1989) recommends a career dose of 2 Sv + 0.075

(age-30) Sv for males and 2 Sv + 0.075 (age-38) Sv for females



-- John 

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist 

3050 Traymore Lane

Bowie, MD  20715-2024



E-mail:  jenday1@email.msn.com (H)      



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