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ANALYSIS OF ALUMINUM PROTECTIVE EFFECT FOR FEMALE ASTRONAUTS IN SOLAR PARTICLE EVENTS by Feng XU 1,2 , Xianghong JIA 2 , Qian LIU 3 , Wei LU 2 , Zhanchun PAN 2 , and Chunxin YANG 1* 1 School of Aeronautic Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing, China 2 State Key Laboratory of Space Medicine Fundamentals and Application, China Astronaut Research and Training Centre, Beijing, China 3 National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China Scientific paper http://doi.org/10.2298/NTRP1701044X In order to ensure the health and safety of female astronauts in space, the risks of space radia- tion should be evaluated, and effective methods for protecting against space radiation should be investigated. In this paper, a dose calculation model is established for Chinese female astro- nauts. The absorbed doses of some organs in two historical solar particle events are calculated using Monte Carlo methods, and the shielding conditions are 0 gcm –2 and 5 gcm –2 aluminum, respectively. The calculated results are analysed, compared, and discussed. The results show that 5 gcm –2 aluminum cannot afford enough effective protection in solar particle events. Hence, once encountering solar particle events in manned spaceflight missions, in order to en- sure the health and safety of female astronauts, they are not allowed to stay in the pressure ves- sel, and must enter into the thicker shielding location such as food and water storage cabin. Key words: radiation protection, female astronaut, space radiation, Monte Carlo method, or gan dose INTRODUCTION Radiation is one of the most harmful environ- mental factors to astronauts in space, and cannot be avoided in manned spaceflight missions. In this con- text, radiation derives from particles such as protons, a particles, heavy ions, electrons and neutrons. The degree of radiation damage depends on the doses ab- sorbed by various organs or tissues and the radiation type [1]. In the National Aeronautics and Space Adminis- tration space flight human system standard (NASA-STD-3001) [2], five organ-dose limits, which pertain to the eye lenses, skin, blood-forming organs (BFO), heart and central nervous system, are defined to protect astronauts against space radiation. At the same time, the career effective dose limits for one year missions and average life-loss for an exposure-in- duced death for radiation carcinogenesis are also listed, showing the dose limits for women are less than those for men and the average life-loss for women are higher than that for men. Hence, generally speaking, the radiation resistance of women is lower than that of men. Despite this asymmetry, Chinese female astro- nauts have already entered space. In the future, more females will explore the universe. Therefore, in order to ensure the safety of space exploration as it pertains to female astronauts, the requirements of space radia- tion protection for female astronauts must be thor- oughly analyzed [3, 4]. In this paper, a Chinese female astronaut radia- tion dose calculation model is developed, and in com- bination with Monte Carlo methods, the organ doses of Chinese female astronauts are estimated. The iso- tropic incident particles of interest are protons with an energy range of 10-20 000 MeV. The shielding areal densities investigated are 0 gcm –2 and 5 gcm –2 alumi- num. Finally, considering the characteristics of the so- lar particle event (SPE) spectrum, the calculated re- sults were analysed, compared, and discussed. MATERIALS AND METHODS Chinese female astronaut model Since organ doses cannot be measured in astro- nauts' bodies directly, computational phantoms, to- gether with Monte Carlo methods, are used to pre- cisely simulate space radiation interacting with the F. Xu, et al.: Analysis of Aluminum Protective Effect for Female Astronauts ... 44 Nuclear Technology & Radiation Protection: Year 2017, Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 44-51 * Corresponding author; e-mail: yangchunxin@sina.com

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ANAL Y SIS OF ALU MI NUM PRO TEC TIVE EF FECT FORFE MALE AS TRO NAUTS IN SO LAR PAR TI CLE EVENTS

by

Feng XU 1,2, Xianghong JIA 2, Qian LIU 3, Wei LU 2,Zhanchun PAN 2, and Chunxin YANG1*

1 School of Aero nau tic Sci ence and En gi neer ing,Beijing Uni ver sity of Aero nau tics and As tro nau tics, Beijing, China

2State Key Lab o ra tory of Space Med i cine Fun da men tals and Ap pli ca tion,China As tro naut Re search and Train ing Cen tre, Beijing, China

3 Na tional Lab o ra tory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong Uni ver sity of Sci ence and Tech nol ogy, Wuhan, China

Sci en tific pa perhttp://doi.org/10.2298/NTRP1701044X

In or der to en sure the health and safety of fe male as tro nauts in space, the risks of space ra di a -tion should be eval u ated, and ef fec tive meth ods for pro tect ing against space ra di a tion shouldbe in ves ti gated. In this pa per, a dose cal cu la tion model is es tab lished for Chi nese fe male as tro -nauts. The ab sorbed doses of some or gans in two his tor i cal so lar par ti cle events are cal cu latedus ing Monte Carlo meth ods, and the shield ing con di tions are 0 gcm–2 and 5 gcm–2 alu mi num, re spec tively. The cal cu lated re sults are ana lysed, com pared, and dis cussed. The re sults showthat 5 gcm–2 alu mi num can not af ford enough ef fec tive pro tec tion in so lar par ti cle events.Hence, once en coun ter ing so lar par ti cle events in manned space flight mis sions, in or der to en -sure the health and safety of fe male as tro nauts, they are not al lowed to stay in the pres sure ves -sel, and must en ter into the thicker shield ing lo ca tion such as food and wa ter stor age cabin.

Key words: ra di a tion pro tec tion, fe male as tro naut, space ra di a tion, Monte Carlo method, or gan dose

IN TRO DUC TION

Ra di a tion is one of the most harm ful en vi ron -men tal fac tors to as tro nauts in space, and can not beavoided in manned space flight mis sions. In this con -text, ra di a tion de rives from par ti cles such as pro tons,a par ti cles, heavy ions, elec trons and neu trons. Thede gree of ra di a tion dam age de pends on the doses ab -sorbed by var i ous or gans or tis sues and the ra di a tiontype [1].

In the Na tional Aero nau tics and Space Ad min is -tra tion space flight hu man sys tem stan dard(NASA-STD-3001) [2], five or gan-dose lim its, whichper tain to the eye lenses, skin, blood-form ing or gans(BFO), heart and cen tral ner vous sys tem, are de finedto pro tect as tro nauts against space ra di a tion. At thesame time, the ca reer ef fec tive dose lim its for one yearmis sions and av er age life-loss for an ex po sure-in -duced death for ra di a tion carcinogenesis are alsolisted, show ing the dose lim its for women are less thanthose for men and the av er age life-loss for women arehigher than that for men. Hence, gen er ally speak ing,the ra di a tion re sis tance of women is lower than that ofmen. De spite this asym me try, Chi nese fe male as tro -

nauts have al ready en tered space. In the fu ture, morefe males will ex plore the uni verse. There fore, in or derto en sure the safety of space ex plo ra tion as it per tainsto fe male as tro nauts, the re quire ments of space ra di a -tion pro tec tion for fe male as tro nauts must be thor -oughly an a lyzed [3, 4].

In this pa per, a Chi nese fe male as tro naut ra di a -tion dose cal cu la tion model is de vel oped, and in com -bi na tion with Monte Carlo meth ods, the or gan dosesof Chi nese fe male as tro nauts are es ti mated. The iso -tro pic in ci dent par ti cles of in ter est are pro tons with anen ergy range of 10-20 000 MeV. The shield ing ar ealden si ties in ves ti gated are 0 gcm–2 and 5 gcm–2 alu mi -num. Fi nally, con sid er ing the char ac ter is tics of the so -lar par ti cle event (SPE) spec trum, the cal cu lated re -sults were ana lysed, com pared, and dis cussed.

MATERIALS AND METH ODS

Chi nese fe male as tro naut model

Since or gan doses can not be mea sured in as tro -nauts' bod ies di rectly, com pu ta tional phan toms, to -gether with Monte Carlo meth ods, are used to pre -cisely sim u late space ra di a tion in ter act ing with the

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* Cor re spond ing au thor; e-mail: [email protected]

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hu man body and en ergy de pos it ing in the hu man body. Fe male as tro naut model is the ba sic and key con di tionof the re search. The orig i nal im ages were taken fromthe vis i ble chi nese hu man adult fe male (VCH-F)high-pre ci sion data sets with an im age res o lu tion of0.10 mm ́ 0.10 mm ́ 0.20 mm [5]. The data were ob -tained from the suc ces sive cryosectioning of a19-year-old fe male ca daver (156 cm in height and46 kg in weight), who died of food poi son ing with outany or gan or tis sue dam age. In or der to elim i nate theim pact of move ment, ro ta tion and de for ma tion in theim age ac qui si tion pro cess, im age rec ti fi ca tion wascar ried out. Au to matic seg men ta tion and in ter ac tiveman ual seg men ta tion were used to iden tify tis sues andor gans. Thirty tis sues and or gans, each la beled with aspe cific iden ti fi ca tion num ber, were iden ti fied, and to -tal 50,002 pic tures were ob tained af ter seg men ta tion.Us ing rapid 3-D par al lel re con struc tion soft ware,based on mes sage pass ing in ter face (MPI) par al lel li -brar ies and the vi su al iza tion tool kit (VTK), the 3-Ddig i tal re con struc tion of the fe male model was car riedout on multi-CPU com puter clus ters and dis trib utedmem ory sys tems.

The non-uni form ra tio nal B-spline (NURBS)model is a 3-D sur face model that can be ad justed toachieve fairly re al is tic anat omy and to im ple ment per -son al ized de for ma tion. The ad just ments and de for ma -tions can be per formed by scal ing and ro tat ing a fewcon trol points. In or der to ac cord with the pre cise char -ac ter is tics of Chi nese fe male as tro nauts, the NURBSmodel was ad justed and de formed by chang ing itsmath e mat i cal phys i cal pa ram e ters, such as con trolgrid, con trol ver ti ces, node vec tors and weight ing fac -tor. The pa ram e ters of or gans and tis sues were alsomod i fied [6, 7]. A com par i son of some pa ram e ters be -tween the av er age val ues of Chi nese fe male as tro nauts and Chi nese fe male as tro naut model (CFAM) is listedin tab. 1, and CFAM is shown in fig. 1.

At last, the CFAM was re-meshed and then trans -formed into the voxel model with the ap pro pri ate res o -lu tion for ra di a tion doses cal cu la tion. In or der to bal -ance cal cu la tion pre ci sion and cal cu la tion time, thevoxel size of the model was set as 1 mm × 1 mm × 1 mm. The da ta base in cludes 370 mil lion items of data in for -ma tion. Each item in cludes the co-or di nates of thevoxel, the iden ti fi ca tion code of the or gan or tis sue, theden sity, and the el e ment cat e gory. The to tal stor age ca -pac ity of the da ta base is about 6.33 GB.

So lar par ti cle events

The par ti cles in volved in SPE are pri mar ily pro -tons (96 %-99 %), and thus such an event can also bere ferred to as a so lar pro ton event. Dur ing low-Earthor bit flight, ow ing to the pro tec tion af forded by theEarth's mag netic field, SPE af fect as tro nauts only min -i mally. For manned lu nar-land ing mis sions ordeep-space ex plo ra tion, SPE may bring a great threatto health and safety of as tro nauts.

The Au gust 1972 event has been used in var i ouspub li ca tions and was also used as a de sign en vi ron -ment for the NASA Con stel la tion pro gram. The Oc to -ber 1989 event rep re sents a hard spec trum (i. e. morein tense low en ergy com po nent) that com pli catesshield ing strat e gies. The in te grated pro ton fluencespec tra of these two his tor i cal SPE are shown in fig. 2[8]. The or gan doses dur ing these two SPE were cal cu -lated to re search the ra di a tion pro tec tion ef fects.

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Ta ble 1. Com par i son of some pa ram e ters

Pa ram e ter CFAM Av er age val ues of chinesefe male as tro nauts

Height [mm] 1 642 606 1644

Shoul der width [mm] 348.401 350

Chest thick ness [mm] 216.704 211

Trunk length [mm] 661.807 670

Weight [kg] 57.980 57

Fig ure 1. Chi nese fe male as tro naut model

Fig ure 2. In te grated pro ton spec tra of SPE

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Cal cu la tion method

In this pa per, by mak ing use of Geant4 [9, 10],or gan and tis sue doses in the CFAM caused by pro tonwere cal cu lated.

Firstly, we cal cu lated the or gan doses DT (E0)caused by mono-en er getic pro ton with en ergy E0, us -ing the fol low ing cal cu la tion con di tions: the en ergyrange in ves ti gated was 10-20.000 MeV; the in ci dentdi rec tion was iso tro pic; the shield ing ar eal den si tiesused were 0 gcm–2 and 5 gcm–2 alu mi num (the rel a tivethin shield ing lo ca tion of manned space craft, for ex -am ple the pres sure ves sel whose av er age shield ingthick ness is about 5 gcm–2 alu mi num).

The pro ton doses were cal cu lated by in te grat ingthe prod uct of each dif fer en tial pro ton spec trum f(E)and DT (E) as

D f E D E E= òF ( ) ( )T d (1)

where F de notes the flux rate through a spher i cal sur -face that is the nor mal iza tion fac tor re lated to thespher i cal source plane used in the Monte Carlo sim u la -tion, and E de notes en ergy.

To per form rapid as sess ments, the dif fer en tialpro ton spec tra were rep re sented ap prox i mately bytheir val ues at dis crete points. The doses were then de -ter mined as

D f E D E Ei

N

==åF ( ) ( )i T i ii

1

D (2)

where N de notes the num ber of dis crete points.

RE SULTS

Cal cu la tion re sults

In or der to sat isfy the re quire ment of cal cu la tioner ror, 108 sam ples at each en ergy point were set. On thiscon di tion, the cal cu la tion er rors were less than 5 % ex -cept at a few low-en ergy points, and even less than 1 %at al most all high-en ergy points.

The fluence to or gan ab sorbed dose con ver sionco ef fi cients, in units of pGy cm2, were cal cu lated andcom pared to the cor re spond ing co ef fi cients for theICRP ref er ence woman [11]. The com par i sons of sixor gans' ab sorbed doses (skin, red mar row, heart, brain, stom ach, and ovary) be tween CFAM and ICRP ref er -ence woman are shown in fig. 3. These six or gans arerep re sen ta tive: skin and red mar row dis trib utethrough out the body and rep re sent ex ter nal or gan andin ter nal or gan, re spec tively; brain, heart, and, stom ach are po si tioned in head, chest, and ab do men, re spec -tively; ovary is the unique or gan of a fe male.

The ab sorbed doses of four teen or gans and tis -sues (skin, red mar row, eyes, heart, brain, co lon, lungs,stom ach, breast, ovary, uri nary blad der, esoph a gus, liv -

ers, and thy roid) on upon two dif fer ent shield ing con di -tions (0 gcm–2 and 5 gcm–2 alu mi num) are pre sented infig. 4. Skin, red mar row, eyes, heart and cen tral ner voussys tem (CNS) are used for space ra di a tion safety eval u -a tions in NASA-STD-3001 [2]. The weight ing fac torsof other eight or gans and tis sues are rel a tively largecom pared to the rest of the or gans and tis sues. The rec -om men da tions for tis sue weight ing fac tors (from ICRPpub li ca tion 103 [12]) are listed in tab. 2.

Or gan doses in SPE

The pro ton dif fer en tial spec tra were calculatedfrom fig. 2. The cal cu lated re sults are shown in fig. 5and fig. 6.

DIS CUS SION

Com par i son of cal cu la tion re sults

From figs. 3 and 4, the fol low ing char ac ter is ticscan be iden ti fied.

Though there are de vi a tions be tween cal cu latedand ref er ence co ef fi cients, the vari a tion trend is con -sis tent. At most of the en ergy points, the de vi a tions areless than 30 %; at some high en ergy points, the de vi a -tions are less than 20 %. These de vi a tions may becaused by two rea sons: the first rea son is the dif fer -ences be tween CFAM and ICRP ref er ence woman; the sec ond rea son is the dif fer ences be tween Geant4 andPHITS (the Monte Carlo trans port code used to cal cu -late the cor re spond ing co ef fi cients in ICRP Pub li ca -tion 123) [11].

For red mar row, there are large dif fer ences be -tween the cal cu lated co ef fi cients and those of theICRP ref er ence woman, and at low en ergy points thedif fer ences are even in mag ni tude. The rea son forthese dis crep an cies could be that be cause red mar rowis dis trib uted dif fer ently in dif fer ent re gions of the hu -man body, mi nor changes in the mod els could havestrongly af fected the cal cu la tion re sults, es pe cially atlow en ergy points.

When the in ci dent en ergy is ap prox i mately be -low 100 MeV, most of or gan doses de crease ob vi ouslyon 5 gcm–2 alu mi num shield ing con di tion com pared to

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Ta ble 2. Tis sue weight ing fac tors in ICRP pub li ca tion 103 [12]

Tis sue Tis sue weight ing fac tor

Red mar row, co lon, lungs, stom ach,breast, re main der a 0.12

Go nad 0.08

Uri nary blad der, esoph a gus, liv ers,thy roid 0.04

Bone sur face, brain, sal i vary glands,skin 0.01

a Com po nent or gans for re main der in ICRP 103: ad re nals,ex tra-tho racic air ways, gall blad der, heart, kid neys, lym phaticnodes, mus cle, oral mu cosa, pan creas, pros tate, small in tes tine,spleen, thy mus and uterus/cervix

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0 gcm–2 shield ing con di tion. Tak ing skin for ex am ple,the skin dose de creases to about 30 %-35 % at the en -ergy range 10-60 MeV.

When the in ci dent en ergy is about 100-1000 MeV,the or gan doses ex hibit no ob vi ous dif fer ences on twoshield ing con di tions (5 gcm–2 alu mi num and 0 gcm–2),and the de vi a tions are al most all less than 10 %.

When the in ci dent en ergy is 1000 MeV, the or -gan doses in crease on 5 gcm–2 alu mi num shield ingcon di tion com pared to 0 gcm–2 shield ing con di tion,

and the in cre ment be come large with the in crease ofin ci dent pro ton en ergy. Tak ing skin for ex am ple, theskin dose in creases by 17 %-34 % at the en ergy range2000-20000 MeV.

For some or gans, even when the in ci dent en ergyis be low 100 MeV, the or gan doses in crease on 5 gcm–2

alu mi num shield ing con di tion com pared to 0 gcm–2

shield ing con di tion. Tak ing ovary for ex am ple, theovary dose in creases by 37 % at 10 MeV and 34 % at60 MeV.

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Fig ure 3. Com par i son of the ab sorbed dose be tween CFAM and ICRP ref er ence woman

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Fig ure 4. Com par i son of the ab sorbeddose on dif fer ent shield ing con di tions

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Based on the above-men tioned ob ser va tions, itis ev i dent that the or gan dose vari a tions on two shield -ing con di tions are com plex. To clar ify the ra di a tionpro tec tion ef fect of 5 gcm–2 alu mi num, the or gandoses on these two dif fer ent shield ing con di tions dur -ing two his tor i cal SPE were cal cu lated.

Ex tent of pro tec tion against SPE

From figs. 5 and 6, the fol low ing ob ser va tionscan be made.

The skin dose in the Oc to ber 1989 SPE is higherthan that in Au gust 1972 SPE, be cause the low en ergypro ton flux is greater for the for mer SPE.

The in ter nal or gan doses re sult ing from Oc to ber1989 SPE are lower than those from Au gust 1972 SPE. These dif fer ences are pres ent be cause the max i mumin ter nal or gan ab sorbed dose con ver sion co ef fi cientsap pear around 100 MeV. Hence, the in ter nal or gandoses' or ders of mag ni tude de pend upon the fluence of in ci dent pro tons with en er gies around 100 MeV. Al -though the fluence of pro tons with en er gies be low30 MeV is higher for Oc to ber 1989 SPE than for Au -gust 1972 SPE, the fluence of pro tons with en er gies30-100 MeV is lower for Oc to ber 1989 SPE than for

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Fig ure 5. Or gan doses dur ing Au gust 1972 SPE Fig ure 6. Or gan doses dur ing Oc to ber 1989 SPE

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August 1972 SPE. There fore, the in ter nal or gan dosescaused by Oc to ber 1989 SPE are lower than thosecaused by the Au gust 1972 SPE.

The or gan dose vari a tions with shield ing con di -tion range from 0.22 to 0.91 in Au gust 1972 SPE andfrom 0.27 to 0.96 in the Oc to ber 1989 SPE. Hence,some of the or gan doses clearly de crease due to 5 gcm–2

alu mi num shield ing con di tion, while oth ers do not. Thede tailed dis cus sions are as fol lows.

· In gen eral, the shield ing ef fect of 5 gcm–2 alu mi -num is better for Au gust 1972 SPE than for Oc to -ber 1989 SPE.

· On 5 gcm–2 alu mi num shield ing con di tion, theskin, eyes, breast, and thy roid doses de crease tobe low 40 % in both SPE, con se quently for theseor gans, the shield ing ef fect of 5 gcm–2 alu mi numis ev i dent.

· On 5 gcm–2 alu mi num shield ing con di tion, theheart, ovary, uri nary blad der and esoph a gus dosesde crease to above 70 % in both SPE, con se quently for these or gans es pe cially for ovary, the shield ing ef fect of 5 gcm–2 alu mi num is not ev i dently.

· For the other or gans, the shield ing ef fect of 5 gcm–2

alu mi num is in the mid dle level in both SPE.

CON CLU SIONS

In this study, Chi nese fe male as tro naut model(CFAM) was de vel oped. The ra di a tion doses re ceivedby some or gans in CFAM due to pro tons were cal cu -lated us ing the Monte Carlo method. Fi nally, the or gan dose vari a tions on dif fer ent shield ing con di tions intwo his tor i cal SPE, were an a lyzed. The con clu sionsare as fol lows.

For manned lu nar-land ing mis sion ordeep-space ex plo ra tion, the ra di a tion risk is sig nif i -cant due to the lack of pro tec tion af forded by theEarth's mag netic field [13]. For dif fer ent or gan or tis -sue, the shield ing ef fect of 5 gcm–2 alu mi num var iesin SPE. Some or gan doses ob vi ously de crease on5 gcm–2 alu mi num shield ing con di tion, while oth ersdo not. Tak ing some or gans for ex am ple, the de creaseof eyes dose and thy roid dose is more than 70 %,whereas the de crease of ovary dose is less than 10 %.Hence, though 5 gcm–2 alu mi num can af ford somepro tec tion for fe male as tro nauts in SPE, how ever itcan not en sure fe male as tro nauts' safety once en coun -ter ing SPE. For in stance, on 5 gcm–2 alu mi num shield -ing con di tion, skin dose is still over 20 Gy and the redmar row dose is ap prox i mate 0.7 Gy in Oc to ber 1989SPE. There fore, once en coun ter ing SPE in mannedspace flight mis sions, in or der to en sure the health andsafety of fe male as tro nauts, they are not al lowed to stay in the pres sure ves sel whose av er age shield ing thick ness is about 5 gcm–2 alu mi num, and must en terinto the thicker shield ing lo ca tion such as food andwa ter stor age cabin.

AU THORS' CON TRI BU TIONS

The idea of this pa per was put for ward by F. Xuand C. Yang. The cal cu la tions were done by F. Xu. Theanal y sis and dis cus sion was car ried out by F. Xu, X. Jia,and W. Lu. The Chi nese fe male as tro naut model was de -vel oped by F. Xu, Q. Liu, and Z. Pan. The manu script and fig ures were pre pared by F. Xu and C. Yang.

AC KNOWL EDGE MENTS

This work was sup ported by the Na tional Nat u ralSci ence Foun da tion of China [grant num ber 11105131,11275176]; the Ad vanced Space Med ico-en gi neer ingRe search Pro ject of China [grant num ber 010501]; andthe Tech nol ogy on Aero space Flight Dy nam ics Lab o ra -tory [grant num ber 2014afd003].

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ANALIZA ZA[TITNIH MOGU]NOSTI ALUMINIJUMAOD SOLARNIH ^ESTICA ZA @ENA ASTRONAUTE

Da bi se obezbedila za{tita zdravqa i sigurnost ̀ ena astronauta u svemiru, potrebno jeproceniti rizik usled izlagawa zra~ewu i ispitati delotvornost metoda za za{titu od kosmi~kogzra~ewa. U ovom radu prikazan je model prora~una doze za kineske `ene astronaute. PrimenomMonte Karlo metode prora~unate su apsorbovane doze u organima za dva solarna doga|aja izpro{losti, pri ~emu je upotrebqena za{tita iznosila 0 gcm–2 i 5 gcm–2 aluminijuma. Analizom iupore|ivawem dobijenih rezultata utvr|eno je da 5 gcm–2 aluminijuma nije dovoqna za{tita odzra~ewa tokom solarnih doga|aja. Stoga, ukoliko do|e do solarnih doga|aja tokom misija saqudskom posadom, ̀ enama astronautima ne treba dopustiti da ostanu u kabini pod pritiskom ve} se moraju pomeriti na mesta sa boqom za{titom, kao {to su ostave za skladi{tewe vode i hrane.

Kqu~ne re~i: za{tita od zra~ewa, `ena as tro naut, kosmi~ko zra~ewe, Monte Karlo metoda, .........................doza za organe