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Dose Limits and Countermeasures for Mitigating Radiation Risk in Moon and Mars Exploration

Boscolo, Daria ; Durante, Marco (2022)
Dose Limits and Countermeasures for Mitigating Radiation Risk in Moon and Mars Exploration.
In: Physics, 2022, 4 (1)
doi: 10.26083/tuprints-00022181
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Item Type: Article
Type of entry: Secondary publication
Title: Dose Limits and Countermeasures for Mitigating Radiation Risk in Moon and Mars Exploration
Language: English
Date: 5 September 2022
Place of Publication: Darmstadt
Year of primary publication: 2022
Publisher: MDPI
Journal or Publication Title: Physics
Volume of the journal: 4
Issue Number: 1
DOI: 10.26083/tuprints-00022181
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Origin: Secondary publication DeepGreen
Abstract:

After decades of research on low-Earth orbit, national space agencies and private entrepreneurs are investing in exploration of the Solar system. The main health risk for human space exploration is late toxicity caused by exposure to cosmic rays. On Earth, the exposure of radiation workers is regulated by dose limits and mitigated by shielding and reducing exposure times. For space travel, different international space agencies adopt different limits, recently modified as reviewed in this paper. Shielding and reduced transit time are currently the only practical solutions to maintain acceptable risks in deep space missions.

Uncontrolled Keywords: space travel, galactic cosmic radiation, shielding, nuclear propulsion
Status: Publisher's Version
URN: urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-221810
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This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from Applied Nuclear Physics Conference 2021

Classification DDC: 500 Science and mathematics > 530 Physics
Divisions: 05 Department of Physics > Institute for Condensed Matter Physics
Date Deposited: 05 Sep 2022 13:11
Last Modified: 14 Nov 2023 19:05
SWORD Depositor: Deep Green
URI: https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/id/eprint/22181
PPN: 498942694
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