Re: Dose received from air travel?

[jdelahunt@cc.colorado.edu (John DeLaHunt)]

>I need to know a "reasonable" value to quote as the dose received by a 
>passenger on a "typical" airplane flight.  Can anyone in Radsafe land help?

One of the little handouts we give in radtraining is a "calculate your own
dose" sheet, clearly designed by the nuclear power industry, because it has
all the natural sources of radiation (elevation, medical X-Rays, building
construction, number of 600 mile flights, hours of television watched,
etc.), then, at the end, some numbers for how far you live from a nuke plant
(wherein those numbers are miniscule in comparison).

This sheet uses 4 mrem per 600 mile flight.

Hope this helps.

John

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