Re[2]: Airliner Dose Rates

[Alex.Zapantis@ea.gov.au (Alex Zapantis)]

I thought dose rates at 10,000m above sea level were about 5 micro Sv/h...
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Subject: Re: Airliner Dose Rates
From:    "Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@earthlink.net> at Internet
Date:    12/5/98  4:57 PM

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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