Dillon-Kane Report 2017.pdf (2.91 MB)
Estimating Fallout Building Protection Attributes from Architectural Features and Global Earthquake Model (GEM) Building Descriptions
A nuclear explosion has the potential to injure or kill tens to hundreds of thousands (or more) of people through exposure to fallout (external gamma) radiation. Existing buildings can protect their occupants (reducing fallout radiation exposures) by placing material and distance between fallout particles and individuals indoors. Prior efforts have determined an initial set of building attributes suitable to reasonably assess a given building’s protection against fallout radiation. The current work provides methods to determine the quantitative values for these attributes from (a) common architectural features and data and (b) buildings described using the Global Earthquake Model (GEM) taxonomy. These methods will be used to improve estimates of fallout protection for operational US Department of Defense (DoD) and US Department of Energy (DOE) consequence assessment models.
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Regional Shelter AnalysisBuilding ProtectionShelterNuclear FalloutArchitecture not elsewhere classifiedBuilding not elsewhere classifiedBuilt Environment and Design not elsewhere classifiedEnvironmental Impact AssessmentCivil Engineering not elsewhere classifiedEnvironmental Engineering not elsewhere classified
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