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Re: Airliner Dose Rates

To: radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
Subject: Re: Airliner Dose Rates
From: "Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 14:51:32 -0500
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Reply-to: sandyfl@earthlink.net

Otto G. Raabe stateds the following:

> It seems that 1 mrem/hour may be about right, so that a
> transcontinental flight of 5 hours would involve 5 mrem one-way. That
> sounds a lot higher than previous estimates. What do you think?

My data states a  coast to coast Airplane roundtrip as 5 mRem/RT. 
Otto's values are twice that amount. I also am of the opinion that 1 
mrem/hour is too high.

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