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Flight Attendant Question

To: RadSafe <radsafe@list.Vanderbilt.Edu>
Subject: Flight Attendant Question
From: Kai Kaletsch <eic@shaw.ca>
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 10:32:15 -0600
Reply-To: Kai Kaletsch <eic@shaw.ca>
Sender: owner-radsafe@list.Vanderbilt.Edu

Hi folks,



I received a (rather long) question from a fight attendant. Most of it I can answer myself except:



Would an energy compensated Geiger Tube based instrument give a reasonable indication of dose rate inside an airplane?



I think if most of the interactions are from secondary photons, the reading may be OK. If the most of the counts are from charged particles, the reading will probably not correspond to dose.



Any thoughts?



Kai

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