Flying Through Thunderstorm Equivalent to Getting 400 Chest X-rays?

From Treehugger:

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Here's one that motivates me, Miss Wanderlust, to pack away my passport and more seriously consider that staycation.

Recent findings from scientists at the Florida Institute of Technology, UC Santa Cruz and the University of Florida are estimating that airplane passengers and crews traveling through just one thunderstorm of lightening-emitted X-rays, gamma rays and high-energy electrons could be exposed to radiation amounts equal to 400 chest X-rays--the maximum safe radiation exposure over a person's lifetime. Ouch.

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