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[Tom B]

Or, does it mean the doctor simply hits each crewer with a monthly dose of
"Rad-B-Gone(ITM)" and flush any contamination from their system? (Or
"RadProtect(ITM)" to prevent it...)

We can infer, but not authoritatively from the data point you utilize, that
shielding exists that is sufficient. There may be other reasons that the
radiation is not a long term problem.

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Anthony Jackson <ajackson at iii.com> wrote:

> Timothy Little wrote:
>
> > Fortunately charged radiation is pretty easy to shield against.
> > However there is also a fair bit of neutral radiation, though I
> > haven't yet found definite figures.
>
> Doesn't matter that much. Given that we don't have evidence for spacers
> routinely coming down with cancer, even if they're operating normal
> space ships (we have no information about radiation background in jump
> space), starships must have enough shielding to reduce galactic cosmic
> rays from ~50 rem/yr down to <1 rem/yr. That level of shielding requires
> Magical Radiation Shielding (at least, at the mass level of smaller
> Traveller ships) and will make any radiation source other than cosmic
> rays meaningless.
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