Author: Lewis Van Clief SpencerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil defense
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
Structure Shielding Against Fallout Gamma Rays from Nuclear Detonations
Author: Lewis Van Clief SpencerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil defense
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
Structure Shielding Against Fallout Radiation from Nuclear Weapons
Author: Lewis Van Clief SpencerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fallout shelters
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
An Evaluation of Radiation Exposure Guidance for Military Operations
Author: Institute of MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309058953
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
The Children of Atomic Bomb Survivors
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309045371
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Do persons exposed to radiation suffer genetic effects that threaten their yet-to-be-born children? Researchers are concluding that the genetic risks of radiation are less than previously thought. This finding is explored in this volume about the children of atomic bomb survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasakiâ€"the population that can provide the greatest insight into this critical issue. Assembled here for the first time are papers representing more than 40 years of research. These documents reveal key results related to radiation's effects on pregnancy termination, sex ratio, congenital defects, and early mortality of children. Edited by two of the principal architects of the studies, J. V. Neel and W. J. Schull, the volume also offers an important comparison with studies of the genetic effects of radiation on mice. The wealth of technical details will be immediately useful to geneticists and other specialists. Policymakers will be interested in the overall conclusions and discussion of future studies.
Status of the Dosimetry for the Radiation Effects Research Foundation (DS86)
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309075599
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
The Committee on Dosimetry for the Radiation Effects Research Foundation (RERF) was set up more than a decade ago at the request of the U.S. Department of Energy. It was charged with monitoring work and experimental results related to the Dosimetry System 1986 (DS86) used by RERF to reconstruct the radiation doses to the survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. At the time it was established, DS86 was believed to be the best available dosimetric system for RERF, but questions have persisted about some features, especially the estimates of neutrons resulting from the Hiroshima bomb. This book describes the current situation, the gamma-ray dosimetry, and such dosimetry issues as thermal-neutron discrepancies between measurement and calculation at various distances in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It recommends approaches to bring those issues to closure and sets the stage for the recently convened U.S. and Japan Working Groups that will develop a new dosimetry for RERF. The book outlines the changes relating to DS86 in the past 15 years, such as improved numbers that go into, and are part of, more sophisticated calculations for determining the radiations from bombs that reach certain distances in air, and encourages incorporation of the changes into a revised dosimetry system.
Effects of Nuclear Earth-Penetrator and Other Weapons
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309096731
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Underground facilities are used extensively by many nations to conceal and protect strategic military functions and weapons' stockpiles. Because of their depth and hardened status, however, many of these strategic hard and deeply buried targets could only be put at risk by conventional or nuclear earth penetrating weapons (EPW). Recently, an engineering feasibility study, the robust nuclear earth penetrator program, was started by DOE and DOD to determine if a more effective EPW could be designed using major components of existing nuclear weapons. This activity has created some controversy about, among other things, the level of collateral damage that would ensue if such a weapon were used. To help clarify this issue, the Congress, in P.L. 107-314, directed the Secretary of Defense to request from the NRC a study of the anticipated health and environmental effects of nuclear earth-penetrators and other weapons and the effect of both conventional and nuclear weapons against the storage of biological and chemical weapons. This report provides the results of those analyses. Based on detailed numerical calculations, the report presents a series of findings comparing the effectiveness and expected collateral damage of nuclear EPW and surface nuclear weapons under a variety of conditions.
The Effects of Nuclear Weapons
Author: United States. Defense Atomic Support AgencyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atomic bomb
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
Fallout Protection for Homes with Basements
Author: Exploring Medical and Public Health Preparedness for a Nuclear Incident
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309489172
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop on August 22â€"23, 2018, in Washington, DC, to explore medical and public health preparedness for a nuclear incident. The event brought together experts from government, nongovernmental organizations, academia, and the private sector to explore current assumptions behind the status of medical and public health preparedness for a nuclear incident, examine potential changes in these assumptions in light of increasing concerns about the use of nuclear warfare, and discuss challenges and opportunities for capacity building in the current threat environment. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.
Adverse Reproductive Outcomes in Families of Atomic Veterans
Author: Institute of MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309176115
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 107
Book Description
Over the past several decades, public concern over exposure to ionizing radiation has increased. This concern has manifested itself in different ways depending on the perception of risk to different individuals and different groups and the circumstances of their exposure. One such group are those U.S. servicemen (the "Atomic Veterans" who participated in the atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons at the Nevada Test Site or in the Pacific Proving Grounds, who served with occupation forces in or near Hiroshima and Nagasaki, or who were prisoners of war in or near those cities at the time of, or shortly after, the atomic bombings. This book addresses the feasibility of conducting an epidemiologic study to determine if there is an increased risk of adverse reproductive outcomes in the spouses, children, and grandchildren of the Atomic Veterans.