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Radiation Levels on the Moon Are Alarmingly High (interestingengineering.com)
2 points by cracker_jacks on Sept 28, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


> 1,369 microsieverts per day.

That would be equivalent to eating ~13,690 bananas. It is not an accumulative dose though, so you would have to stuff them a bit.

Radiation workers in the US are allowed to get 50,000µSv per year, so it certainly is a relevant exposure. But if they only stay two weeks, it would still be just about one chest X-ray.

Would be more concerned about these "large solar particle events".

source:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/Exposure...




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