Fallout Protection for Homes with Basements (Classic Reprint)

Fallout Protection for Homes with Basements (Classic Reprint) PDF

Author: United States Office of Civil Defense

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-27

Total Pages: 30

ISBN-13: 9780265797761

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Excerpt from Fallout Protection for Homes With Basements The PF above the box stands for Protection Factor. Before going into the details of what your Protection Factor numbers mean, let's talk for a moment about what fallout is. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Experimental Evaluation of the Radiation Protection Afforded by Typical Oak Ridge Homes Against Distributed Sources

Experimental Evaluation of the Radiation Protection Afforded by Typical Oak Ridge Homes Against Distributed Sources PDF

Author: T. D. Strickler

Publisher:

Published: 1960

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13:

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The protection afforded against simulated fallout radiation has been evaluated for several typical homes in the Oak Ridge area. Nine houses were chosen to represent a variety of construction materials, topographical conditions, and sizes; they included three types of Oak Ridge Cemesto houses, one concrete-block house with a basement "fallout shelter," and two woodframe houses. The protection factor (ratio of open-field exposure dose rate to exposure dose rate in the house) in all these houses ranged from 2 to 5 on the main floor and from 5 to 30 in the basements, except in the fallout shelter, where the protection factor was greater than 100. The analysis showed that sloping lots, common to Oak Ridge, do not appreciably affect the protection factor for the main floor. Owing to the generally increased exposure of the basement walls on such lots, the protection factors in the basements were typically lower than in similar basements built on level lots.

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