On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 20:44:20 -0700, \(formerly\)" dlzc1.cox@net
wrote:

Dear Benoit Morrissette:

"Benoit Morrissette" wrote in message
.. .
On Sat, 08 Nov 2003 21:41:20 GMT, "Bernard Isker"

wrote:

Given all of the recent solar flare activity, how much extra radiation
did
the ISS crew receive compared to a person on earth?? Do they wear
dosimeters
and if so can they read them in real time??

What is the maximum dose they can receive before they exceed the
goverment
standard for yearly radiation exposure. I would bet they have exceeded
that
number whatever it is in the last couple of weeks.

News has been very quiet about this.

About government standards: a friend of mine is a chimist at the nuclear
powerplant of Gentilly in Quebec, Canada. He told me that one day, a
friend of
him came in and set off ALL the alarms on her path. After investigation,
they
found out that the day before, she had dental x-rays!! they are now
reevaluating their standards to more realistic values...

Good lord! They must have used X-rays in excess of 5 MeV in order to make
her radioactive. X-rays used in "regular" dental exams are a few keV.
They must have some very special film too, since such high energy X-rays
would pass even through metal fillings like so much smoke.

I think there was another cause. Dental X-rays don't make you radioactive.

David A. Smith

Apparently, no. The inside of the administrative building has ten times less
background radiation than the average background radiation around here and the
detectors are very sensitive. Some people are just paranoid...
Good night!

Benoît Morrissette