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Re: Airliner Dose Rates
>May 12, 1998
>Davis, CA
>
>Dear RadSafers:
>
>Now that we are concerned about neutrons as well as gamma rays, I would
>appreciate some good rule-of-thumb estimates of the radiation dose rate
>aboard U.S. commercial airliners at normal flight altitudes (e.g. 30,000
>feet). 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?
>
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Just to add to the Airliner Dose Rate Pot;
I assume that we all know that each airliner carries up to 10 Curies of Tritium in EACH Emergency Exit Sign and also carries several hundred pounds of depleted Uranium as counterweights in each wing ??
Thinks that make me go Hummmmm.
J.B. Owens
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