Scaling Mount Everest exposes climbers to five times more radiation than a NUCLEAR POWER WORKER experiences in a year

  Scaling Mount Everest exposes climbers to five times more radiation than a NUCLEAR POWER WORKER experiences in a year

• Scottish radiation expert Bob Kerr scaled Mount Everest in May 2013
• With help from his guide, he recorded radiation levels at its summit
• Radiation at 29,000ft (8,839m) above sea level comes from cosmic rays
• Kerr found climbers are exposed to 1milliSievert (mSv) doses of radiation
• This is five times the average annual exposure in a nuclear power plant

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