Air Activation Following an Atmospheric Explosion
Abstract
In addition to thermal radiation and fission products, nuclear explosions result in a very high flux of unfissioned neutrons. Within an atmospheric nuclear explosion, these neutrons can activate the various elemental components of natural air, potentially adding to the radioactive signature of the event as a whole. The goal of this work is to make an order-of-magnitude estimate of the total amount of air activation products that can result from an atmospheric nuclear explosion.
- Authors:
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- Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1122331
- Report Number(s):
- PNNL-23023
NN2003000
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-76RL01830
- Resource Type:
- Technical Report
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; Thermal Radiation; Fission Products; Nuclear Explosions; unfissioned neutrons; atmospheric nuclear explosion; radioactive signature; high neutron flux
Citation Formats
Lowrey, Justin D., McIntyre, Justin I., Prichard, Andrew W., and Gesh, Christopher J. Air Activation Following an Atmospheric Explosion. United States: N. p., 2013.
Web. doi:10.2172/1122331.
Lowrey, Justin D., McIntyre, Justin I., Prichard, Andrew W., & Gesh, Christopher J. Air Activation Following an Atmospheric Explosion. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1122331
Lowrey, Justin D., McIntyre, Justin I., Prichard, Andrew W., and Gesh, Christopher J. 2013.
"Air Activation Following an Atmospheric Explosion". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1122331. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1122331.
@article{osti_1122331,
title = {Air Activation Following an Atmospheric Explosion},
author = {Lowrey, Justin D. and McIntyre, Justin I. and Prichard, Andrew W. and Gesh, Christopher J.},
abstractNote = {In addition to thermal radiation and fission products, nuclear explosions result in a very high flux of unfissioned neutrons. Within an atmospheric nuclear explosion, these neutrons can activate the various elemental components of natural air, potentially adding to the radioactive signature of the event as a whole. The goal of this work is to make an order-of-magnitude estimate of the total amount of air activation products that can result from an atmospheric nuclear explosion.},
doi = {10.2172/1122331},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1122331},
journal = {},
number = ,
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place = {United States},
year = {Wed Mar 13 00:00:00 EDT 2013},
month = {Wed Mar 13 00:00:00 EDT 2013}
}
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