stevelup wrote:I suspect things are, as you suggest, much stricter now. I can't imagine anyone - male or female - being subjected to that and it be deemed 'acceptable' in 2021.
It's a question of shielding, weight and distance. Obviously you can only be so far from the reactor when in the submarine and the sub can only be so heavy.
It's also due in part to what they deem a "safe" dose gradually reducing. Probably beyond practical now. I get more radiation from flying.
Fast dividing cells are the most at risk hence the exclusion of women in case they happen to be pregnant - Maybe it's seems bit sexist but nobody wants to be on the end a mutant baby lawsuit.
HSE just made us add a load of stuff to our radiation regs about pregnant women. Admittedly they were last revised about 8 years back
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