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I am not sure whether I understood it correctly, but the secondary radiation (when a high energy particle hits the shielding, a shower of secondary particles ra
by _nalply 10y ago
I am not sure whether I understood it correctly, but the secondary radiation (when a high energy particle hits the shielding, a shower of secondary particles rains on the unfortunate passenger) seems to physically hurt parts of the body. Similar to boiling small random volumes inside the body. And the aortic arch seems to be very sensitive to such lesions.
- Symmetry 10y agoRight. That's why you want to use low atomic weight shielding like paraffin or water when you're worried about charged particle radiation.