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Can anybody reconcile these two statements? > At 15 rads, blood count starts to change. At 150 rads, > death becomes inevitable without treatment. > The
by cloudwalking 13y ago
Can anybody reconcile these two statements?
> At 15 rads, blood count starts to change. At 150 rads,
> death becomes inevitable without treatment.
> The maximum operation dose-limit for Apollo astronauts
> was 400 rads on skin, which is equivalent to an x-ray.
- cadab 13y agoI was a bit confused as well, would it be that the skin is a good barrier to the radiation, so most would be deflected away, meaning you would only 'absorb' a very small amount?
- adrianN 13y agoBut rads are a measure of absorbed radiation. However, rads don't distinguish between different types of radiation like sieverts do. So 400 rads of alpha particles (hardly penetrating skin at all) have a very different effect on the body than 400 rads of gamma radiation (messing things up in deep tissue).
- cadab 13y agoAh I was unaware that Rads meant absorbed radiation.