Of more than 500 occupations in the United States, flight attendants and pilots have the highest and second-highest proportion of radiation-related cancer deaths, a new study has found.

beep@piefed.world · 9 days ago

Of more than 500 occupations in the United States, flight attendants and pilots have the highest and second-highest proportion of radiation-related cancer deaths, a new study has found.

Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io · 9 days ago

I"m surprised this hasn’t been reported before. Spending much of one’s life at 30K ft, inside an aluminum tube would be expected to expose one to significant cosmic rays.

So I DDG’d it, here’s a few links:

Cosmic Radiation Dose with Altitude Calculator https://codingace.net/physics/cosmic_radiation_dose_with.html

Flight Crews and Radiation Exposure https://www.versantphysics.com/2024/03/27/flight-crews-and-radiation-exposure/

Facts About Radiation from Air Travel https://www.cdc.gov/radiation-health/data-research/facts-stats/air-travel.html