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South Atlantic anomaly

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An area where the radiation belt, and hence the trapped protons, comes closer to the Earth’s surface due to a displacement of the magnetic dipole axes from the Earth's centre. (ICRP Publication 123, 2013)

ICRP Glossary entry - May 2019


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