IMPROVEMENT OF PROTECTION DATA BASE FOR DAMAGE ASSESSMENT AND DATA BASE ON SHELTER NEEDS. Final Report. Volume II
Results are reported for five studies concerned with obtaining, compiling, or analyzing fallout shelter protection data. Subjects covered include: a review of the residential basement data which were obtained from the 1960 U. S. Census of Housing; an examination of electric power availability in the postattack period, with emphasis upon fallout protection in power plants; the preparation of a procedure for extracting summary distributions of overpressure, reference intensity, and fallout arrival time and relating these to numbers of people exposed, on the basis of data extracted from the Attack Environment III output tapes of the Jumbo III damage assessment system; the re-evaluation with National Fallout Shelter Survey (NFSS) data, of an analytical model for predicting fallout protection for people as a function of their distance from the center of a city; and a statistical analysis of NFSS data from Houston, Texas, and Durham, N. C., performed to determine distribution functions expressing their shelter characteristics. These analytical representations of NFSS data are applied, in an illustrative example, to optimal allocation of improvement dol1ars to ventilating below ground shelters to increase their capacity. (auth)
- Research Organization:
- Research Triangle Inst., Durham, N.C.
- NSA Number:
- NSA-18-014101
- OSTI ID:
- 4080439
- Report Number(s):
- AD-427995
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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