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Record #157705:

Flying on top of the world: a radiation risk / Thomas Crampton.

Title: Flying on top of the world: a radiation risk / Thomas Crampton.
Author(s): Crampton, Thomas.
Date: 2001.
Publisher: [New York]: International Herald Tribune
Abstract: Passengers and crew flying on the North Pole route between New York and Hong Kong are exposed to unusually high levels of cosmic and solar radiation. The dose for each transpolar crossing could reach 0.10 millisievert.
Notes:

Originally published online at: http://www.iht.com/articles/20826.htm.

Keywords: 656.7 -- Air transport.
551.521 -- Radiation, atmospheric.
551.521.64 -- Radiation, cosmic.
613/614 -- Health and preventive medicine.
I -- Medicine and health.
(*3) -- Arctic regions.
Location(s): SCO: SPRI-PAM: (*3) : 521.52/551.21.6
SPRI record no.: 157705

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