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Dibes | 6 years ago

Couldn't this be curbed by better radiation shielding on the plane itself?

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scythe|6 years ago

Not necessarily. Photons at Compton-dominant energies (200-5000 keV) can’t be effectively shielded because every material (including, eg, lead) absorbs them about the same. Also, shielding is inevitably heavy.