The Assessment of Space Radiation Exposure of Biology Experiments during Two Short-Term Missions

Mariagabriella Pugliese; Filomena Loffredo; Maria Quarto; Vincenzo Roca; Gianna Vivaldo; Alba Zanini

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The Assessment of Space Radiation Exposure of Biology Experiments during Two Short-Term Missions

Mariagabriella Pugliese, Filomena Loffredo, Maria Quarto, Vincenzo Roca, Gianna Vivaldo, Alba Zanini

Published in American Journal of Environmental Protection (Volume 3, Issue 6)

Received: 26 November 2014 Accepted: 18 December 2014 Published: 4 January 2015

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The assessment of space radiation exposure on plants, animals, cell cultures, as well as the astronauts, is crucial not only because it is very different from that to which they are subjected on the earth, but also to understand the combined effects of exposure to space radiation under microgravity. In particular, we evaluated the equivalent dose due to neutrons and charged particles for biology experiments, in two short-term missions, FOTON M3 and STS-34 mission, using Thermo Luminescence Dosimeters (TLDs) to evaluate the charged particles dosimetry and a set of passive neutron bubbles detectors for neutron dosimetry. In STS-34 mission, stack bismuth track dosimeter was used in addition to bubbles detectors to evaluate the dose equivalent rate due to neutrons in a wide energy range (0.025 eV-200 GeV). Considering a total dose due to both radiation types particles, a value of about 1 mSv/day is obtained. The neutron component represents about 18 % of the total.

Published in	American Journal of Environmental Protection (Volume 3, Issue 6)
DOI	10.11648/j.ajep.20140306.14
Page(s)	323-326
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Space Radiation, Dosimetry

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Mariagabriella Pugliese, Filomena Loffredo, Maria Quarto, Vincenzo Roca, Gianna Vivaldo, et al. The Assessment of Space Radiation Exposure of Biology Experiments during Two Short-Term Missions. Am J Environ Prot. 2015;3(6):323-326. doi: 10.11648/j.ajep.20140306.14

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Mariagabriella Pugliese

Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy
Filomena Loffredo

Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy
Maria Quarto

Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy
Vincenzo Roca

Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy
Gianna Vivaldo

Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
Alba Zanini

Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy

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