Download or read book Radiation Safety in Shelters written by FEMA and published by Loose Cannon. This book was released on with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you have a fallout shelter, you need radiation detection equipment! If you have radiation detection gear, you need a manual! This 1983 book, created by FEMA, is the Gold standard for learning how to monitor radiation in a fallout shelter. Essentially a 'Survey meters/dosimeters for Dummies', it presents a complex and technical subject in a very simple, easy to understand manner that anyone can learn. General topics covered are types of ionizing radiation, how it is measured, symptoms and effects of exposure, shielding and avoiding contamination. Also covered are facts about fallout, use of a survey meter (V-715), the testing and use of pen-type dosimeters and even troubleshooting such equipment. Everything is explained to just the level needed to get the job done and keep people safe. It includes Action checklists, Exposure record sheet examples and a very handy glossary as well. A must-have reference inside every shelter! Sections include: - Checklists for Radiological Monitors - What is Nuclear Radiation - The 7:10 Rule - How Much Nuclear Radiation is Harmful? - How Fallout Radioactivity Arrives and Decays - Instruments for detecting nuclear radiation - How to get your radiological instruments ready for operation - Radiation safety procedures - Decontamination of People Caught in Fallout - Finding the Places with the Lowest Radiation Levels in the Shelter - Keeping Track of Everyone's Radiation Exposure - Checking Radiation Levels Beyond the Immediate Shelter Area ALSO: See our other book on fallout shelters, "Expedient Shelter Construction" and "Shelter Plans Anthology 1"

Download or read book A Proposed New Handbook for the Federal Emergency Management Agency written by Carsten M. Haaland and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook is proposed to replace the portion of the current Handbook for Radiological Monitoring that deals with protection of people in shelters from radiation from fallout resulting from nuclear war. Basic information at a high-school level is given on how to detect nuclear radiation, how to find and improve the safest places in a shelter, the necessity for and how to keep records on individual radiation exposures, and how to minimize exposures. Several new procedures are introduced, some of which are based more on theoretical considerations than on actual experiments. These procedures include: (1) the method of time-averaging radiation readings taken with one instrument in different locations of a large shelter while fallout is coming down and radiation levels are climbing too rapidly for direct comparison of readings to determine the safest location; (2) the method of using one's own body to obtain directionality in radiation readings taken with a standard Civil Defense survey meter; (3) the method of using mutual shielding to reduce the average radiation exposure to shelter occupants; and (4) the ratio method for estimating radiation levels in hazardous areas.

Download or read book A Proposed New Handbook for the Federal Emergency Management Agency written by Carsten M. Haaland and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook is proposed to replace the portion of the current Handbook for Radiological Monitoring that deals with protection of people in shelters from radiation from fallout resulting from nuclear war. Basic information at a high-school level is given on how to detect nuclear radiation, how to find and improve the safest places in a shelter, the necessity for and how to keep records on individual radiation exposures, and how to minimize exposures. Several new procedures are introduced, some of which are based more on theoretical considerations than on actual experiments. These procedures include: (1) the method of time-averaging radiation readings taken with one instrument in different locations of a large shelter while fallout is coming down and radiation levels are climbing too rapidly for direct comparison of readings to determine the safest location; (2) the method of using one's own body to obtain directionality in radiation readings taken with a standard Civil Defense survey meter; (3) the method of using mutual shielding to reduce the average radiation exposure to shelter occupants; and (4) the ratio method for estimating radiation levels in hazardous areas. (Author).

Download or read book Radiation Safety in Shelters written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Radiation Safety in Shelters A Handbook for Findingandproviding the Best Protection in Shelters with the Useofinstruments for Detecting Nuclear Radiation written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Radiological Monitoring written by United States. Office of Civil Defense and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Handbook for Radiological Defense Education written by United States. Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Radiation Safety in Shelters written by USA. Federal Emergency Management Agency and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fallout Protection written by United States. Office of Civil Defense and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This booklet attempts to inform people of the dangers of a thermonuclear attack and provide them with guidance they can use to protect themselves.

Download or read book Shelter Design and Analysis Fallout radiation shielding written by United States. Office of Civil Defense and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fallout Shelters in Terminal Buildings written by United States. Federal Aviation Administration and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fallout Protection for Hospitals written by United States. Public Health Service. Division of Hospital and Medical Facilities and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Experimental Evaluation of the Radiation Protection Provided by an Earth covered Shelter written by Zolin G. Burson and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study was undertaken to determine the protection against fallout radiation provided by an earth-covered shelter. The study indicated that the shelter offered excellent protection from fallout radiation deposited on and around the shelter. This study also added additional data to the research in radiation shielding provided by various structures which is being conducted by the Civil Effects Test Operations, Division of Biology and Medicine, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. A fallout radiation field was simulated by pumping, at constant speed, a sealed Co60 source through a long length of tubing which was evenly distributed over an area. Radiation measurements were made Inside the shelter by dose-integrating ionization chambers. In general, the results indicated that the protection factor (ratio of the open-field exposure dose rate to the exposure dose rate in the structure) was approximately 5000 in the center of the shelter, increasing to 10,000 to 15,000 along the sides, and decreasing to about 3000 near the ends. Directly below vents the protection factor was found to be approximately 2500 at the 3-ft level. The shelter was a half-round corrugated-steel structure covered by a minimum of approximately 2 ft of earth on the top and 5 to 7 ft of earth on the sides.

Download or read book Specifications for Radiationproof Shelters written by Germany (West). Bundesministerium für Wohnungsbau and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Radiation Safety in Shelters written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Experimental Evaluation of the Radiation Protection Afforded by Typical Oak Ridge Homes Against Distributed Sources written by T. D. Strickler and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Shelters in New Homes written by NAHB Research Foundation and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report, prepared for the Office of Civil Defense by the National Association of Home Builders Research Foundation, is a planning tool. It provides information to help home builders or owners in planning for protection against fallout radiation.