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Originally Posted by Anaraxes
It occurs to me that most of the crew's time in spent in jumpspace. They're only exposed to cosmic rays during the transition to and from the 100D limit.
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Except when they decide to run to the local gas giant to skim fuel (about a week in normal space for a trader). And all the implied bits about in-system traffic of up to a week travel time (since if it's much longer than a week Jump is faster and then it's a matter of expense/cost evaluation).
And that 100D travel time may also be a week (or longer?) for a world in a close orbit of the larger stars. Earth itself is just outside the 100D of Sol iirc so it's not an issue for Earth, but other systems may well have long real space travel times.
Whatever method is used it can't be good enough to negate weapon radiation damage on it's own. That's the job of extra armor and/or nuclear dampers.