Sieverts and crew modules.

sage
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Sieverts and crew modules. Oct 22, 2021 1:31:48 GMT

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Post by sage on Oct 22, 2021 1:31:48 GMT

The limited for crew modules is listed at 50mSv, but a 6-month trip to Mars would have you receive about 250mSv. A 6-month stay on the International Space Station would be about 80mSv. From my Experience I have never received an error message from the crew modules for the walls being too thin against radiation exposure. The only error message I received for the crew modules is when the wall are too thin for the atmosphere.

It looks to me that our walls would be too thin to protect against radiation, but I may be wrong. What do you guy think?

Also does any one know which material property shields you against Sieverts?

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sage Senior Member Posts: 294	Sieverts and crew modules. Nov 24, 2021 7:25:03 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by sage on Nov 24, 2021 7:25:03 GMT The total effective per year dose is 1 mSv. Does anyone else then me see a problem here?

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Sieverts and crew modules. Nov 28, 2021 17:00:11 GMT cipherpunks likes this

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Post by AtomHeartDragon on Nov 28, 2021 17:00:11 GMT

I think one of the issues here is that radiation environment is far from homogeneous across solar system. Close to the sun it's probably going to be bad, Jupiter at Ganymede and below is a literal hellscape, most of the outer system is going to be benign, etc. It would be nice to have values listed for individual bodies at least and shielding checked against that.

Also some, but not enough shielding is worse than no shielding against charged particles, because instead of having a few insanely high energy particles just zip through you, you get shotgunned by showers of much lower energy particles they knocked out of shielding.
It's like spall damage with ineffective bulk armour in a way.

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