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Measurement of the Space Radiation Dose for the Flight Aircrew at High-Altitude

  • Lee, Jaewon (Weather Wing, Republic of Korea Air force) ;
  • Park, Inchun (Weather Wing, Republic of Korea Air force) ;
  • Kim, Junsik (Weather Wing, Republic of Korea Air force) ;
  • Lee, Jaejin (Solar and Space Weather Research Group, KASI) ;
  • Hwang, Junga (Solar and Space Weather Research Group, KASI) ;
  • Kim, Young-Chul (Dept. of Flight Operation, Hanseo University)
  • Received : 2014.01.20
  • Accepted : 2014.02.25
  • Published : 2014.03.15

Abstract

This paper describes an experimental approach to evaluate the effective doses of space radiations at high-altitude by combining the measured data from the Liulin-6K spectrometer loaded onto the air-borne RC-800 cockpit and the calculated data from CARI-6M code developed by FAA. In this paper, 15 exposed dose experiments for the flight missions at a high-altitude above 10 km and 3 experiments at a normal altitude below 4 km were executed over the Korean Peninsula in 2012. The results from the high-altitude flight measurements show a dramatic change in the exposed doses as the altitude increases. The effective dose levels (an average of $15.27{\mu}Sv$) of aircrew at the high-altitude are an order of magnitude larger than those (an average of $0.30{\mu}Sv$) of the normal altitude flight. The comparison was made between the measure dose levels and the calculated dose levels and those were similar each other. It indicates that the annual dose levels of the aircrew boarding RC-800 could be above 1 mSv. These results suggest that a proper procedure to manage the exposed dose of aircrew is required for ROK Air Force.

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