End_of_Descent
Im going to see, if I can have a nice chat with somebody who works in that area.
On a different note, I have a friend who began working as a stewardes at austrian airlines.
Aparently they had a special training course about the health risks on flying. In that course the teachers didn' mention anything about radiation risks.
Their even was a question from one of trainees about radiation risk. The reply was, that their isnt any danger at all.
Is this also by other airlines usual. It sounds very reckless to me, if their is no mention to the becoming flightcrew about radiation risks.
After all 2,4 millisievert per year is a unusual high radiation exposure.
I checked the Table about radiation exposure. Annything under 250 millisievert doesnt cause any immidiat effects.
Everything above 250 millisievert can cause measurable immidiat changes in the body.
Anything above 1 sievert (1000millisievert) begins with an accute radiation poisoning. At 2 sievert their is a 10% chance of death in the shortterm (within weeks).
The average radiation exposure of a person living in germany per year is:
2.1 mSv/year exposure thorugh natural Radiation (of which 1/year mSv comes from exposure to Radon [depends on the area])
The maximum unnatural radiation that is alowed for the normal population in germany is 1mSv/year.
The maximum dosis for people working in a workplaces where their is a high exposure to radiation is 20 mSv/year.
Last edited by fear_not; 15th January 2005 at 10:22.