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Space Radiation Measurement on the Polar Route onboard the Korean Commercial Flights
This study was performed by the policy research project of Ministry of Land, Transport
and Maritime Affairs, which title is “Developing safety standards and management
of space radiation on the polar route”. In this research, total six experiments
were performed using Korean commercial flights (B747). Three of those are on the
polar route and the other three are on the north pacific route. Space radiation exposure
measured on the polar route is the average 84.7 uSv. The simulation result using
CARI-6M program gives 84.9 uSv, which is very similar to measured value. For the
departure flight using the north pacific route, the measured space radiation is the average
74.4 uSv. It seems that is not so different to use the polar route or not for the
return flight because the higher latitude effect causing the increase of space radiation
is compensated by the shortened flight time effect causing decreasing space radiation
exposure