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Re: Airport screening and medicine
Hi all:
Even if dose during commercial intercontinental flight were 50 times [the
factor quoted my Reuven] an assumed typical background of 10 micro-R/hr at
sea level, the dose at altitude would be 500 micro-R/hr or 0.5 mR/hr. For
an extreme case of 8 hours per day of flying times 365 days per year
equates to 1.46 R/year.
More realistically, any crewmember would only fly about 6 hours/day for 5
days a week which works out [6 hours/day/8 hours/day] x [5 days/week/7
days/week] to a factor of 0.53 "occupancy at altitude". Thus the maximum
annual dose for crewmembers is 0.8 R/year based on the reported "50 times
higher than background" stated in the post below.
Stewart Farber
[203] 367-0791
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On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 12:03:38 -0800, Reuven <reuven99@newsguy.com> wrote:
> I beg to differ:
>
> I once MEASURED the radiation dose during an intercontinental flight:
> It was *** 50 times *** HIGHER than the background radiation at sea
> level.
>
> For a continuous flight of 365 days, the total radiation exceeds the
> OCCUPATIONAL
> limit of 5 Rads. This certainly is a point of concern to women employed
> by the airlines, as can be verified by innumerous publications.
>
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