Fallout radiation effects analysis methodology. Final report

Technical Report · Thu Mar 31 04:00:00 EST 1988

OSTI ID:5937811

Fallout radiation is viewed by the weapons effects community as a potentially serious impediment to maintaining or restoring critical National Security Emergency Preparedness (NSEP) telecommunication capabilities in a nuclear environment. The OMNCS' Electromagnetic Pulse Mitigation Program is designed, in part, to identify the survival probability (survivability) of the nation's NSEP telecommunications infrastructure against fallout radiation effects. The OMNCS (Office of the Manager National Communications System) is developing a balanced approach consisting of fallout radiation stress tests on the electronic piece-parts and the use of estimated performance measures of telecommunication network elements in network simulation models to predict user connectivity levels. It is concluded that, given limited available data, the proposed method can predict fallout radiation effects on network telecommunication equipment. The effects of fallout radiation are small at low dosage levels (bin 1 and bin 2). More pronounced variations in equipment performance were exhibited for radiation dosage in the 1k-5k Rads(Si) bin. Finally, the results indicate that by increasing the sample size to approximately 200 samples, the statistical quality of survivability predictions can be significantly improved.

• Research Organization: National Communications Systems, Washington, DC (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5937811
• Report Number(s): AD-A-206549/8/XAB; NCS-TIB-88-04
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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45 MILITARY TECHNOLOGY, WEAPONRY, AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
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DOSE RATES
DOSES
ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSES
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ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT
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PULSES
RADIATION DOSES
RADIATION EFFECTS
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