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Radiation Protection Dosimetry 2004 110(1-4):377-380; doi:10.1093/rpd/nch132
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Radiation Protection Dosimetry Vol. 110 Nos. 1-4 © Oxford University Press 2004; all rights reserved

Investigations of doses on board commercial passenger aircraft using CR-39 and thermoluminescent detectors

T. Horwacik1,*, P. Bilski1, P. Olko1, F. Spurny2 and K. Turek2

1 Institute of Nuclear Physics, Radzikowskiego 152, 31-342 Kraków, Poland
2 Department of Radiation Dosimetry, Nuclear Physics Institute, Na Truhlarce 39/64, 180 86 Prague 8, Czech Republic

* Corresponding author: Tomasz.Horwacik{at}ifj.edu.pl

Measurements of cosmic radiation dose rates (from the neutron and the non-neutron components) on board passenger aircraft were performed using environmental packages with thermoluminescent TL and CR-39 etched track detectors. The packages were calibrated at the CERN-EU high–energy Reference Field Facility and evaluated at the Institute of Nuclear Physics in Krakow (TL + CR-39) and at the German Aerospace Centre in Cologne (CR-39). Detector packages were exposed on board passenger aircraft operated by LOT Polish Airlines, flown between February and May 2001. The values of effective dose rate determined, averaged over the measuring period, ranged between 2.9 and 4.4 µSv h–1. The results of environmental measurements agreed to within 10% with values calculated from the CARI-6 code.


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