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mfb, Thanks again very much for your highly informative reply. And many thanks as well for providing the neutron calculator; I'm not sure how to use it in relation to my questions, but I'll try to figure it out. All the best, Ray1

Vanadium 50, If you look above, you will see that my original questions were: Roughly how much (or how many atoms) of cobalt-59 exposed to the average neutron radiation at in-flight altitudes (about 11,000 meters) -- neutron radiation makes up about half of the in-flight radiation dose due to...

mfb, Thanks for your informative post again. When you say they can "interact" with all atoms, do you mean both absorption (capture) and other kinds of non-absorption interaction? If mainly the latter, then wouldn't it be more likely that they would just slice through lighter-nuclei atoms of...

Vanadium and mfb, I just threw out "at least dozen or two" as a totally hypothetical random number. For all I know, it could be 12 thousand or 12 trillion. That's the problem. I don't know enough to make even a rough guess of what order of magnitude of cobalt-59 atoms would be transmuted into...

Hi Vanadium 50, I should clarify that I don't know whether one is more dangerous than the other. They are different kinds of danger, and I'm trying to get more information about the actual danger of possible cobalt-59 to cobalt-60 transmutation. I can't do anything about the neutron radiation...

Hi mfb, Thanks so much for your reply, but if I may, I would like to ask you to help me understand things a little more. To start out, I should point out that the fraction of the in-flight radiation that comes from neutrons is actually on average more than 50% of all the in-flight radiation...

Can anyone help me with an approximate answer to this or point me in the direction of avenues to get an answer to this? This has practical applications and is potentially worrying. Roughly how much (or how many atoms) of cobalt-59 exposed to the average neutron radiation at in-flight...