Reply to post: Re: Career != Lifetime

Flying to Mars will be so rad, dude: Year-long trip may dump 60% lifetime dose of radiation on you

DCFusor

Re: Career != Lifetime

phuzz is correct, as I know from personal experience.

Due to a fusion reactor test that went "too well" despite being a nearly dry run at the smallest scale the lab could manage, I got some tens (maybe even 50-100) of milliSieverts in perhaps 20 seconds.

Mostly high energy neutrons but also plenty of low energy gammas from the power source, and some high energy ones from neutron capture events.

I was very sick for a few weeks, and maybe anecdotal, but have had to have two cancers cut out of me in a couple of years since. I'd not recommend the experience even to an enemy (if I had any).

The space dose intensity is far less than what I god, but it's no joke. A few dead cells here and there, the body tosses them out with the other garbage. A significant number, all sorts of nasty things happen including auto-immune response to the dead cells...weeks of puking and passing out the other end ain't fun at all. Honest.

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