Radiation Safety In Shelters

Author : FEMA
Publisher : Loose Cannon
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Radiation Safety in Shelters by FEMA Pdf

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"

Author : Carsten M. Haaland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Fallout shelters
ISBN : UOM:39015095278167

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A Proposed New Handbook for the Federal Emergency Management Agency by Carsten M. Haaland Pdf

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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 160322095X

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Radiation Safety in Shelters by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Office of Civil Defense
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Nuclear bomb shelters
ISBN : MINN:31951P011501377

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Shelter Design and Analysis: Fallout radiation shielding by United States. Office of Civil Defense Pdf

Author : United States. Office of Civil Defense
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Atomic bomb
ISBN : UOM:39015041235329

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Fallout Protection by United States. Office of Civil Defense Pdf

This booklet attempts to inform people of the dangers of a thermonuclear attack and provide them with guidance they can use to protect themselves.

Author : United States. Public Health Service. Division of Hospital and Medical Facilities
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Hospitals
ISBN : UOM:39015072187373

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Fallout Protection for Hospitals by United States. Public Health Service. Division of Hospital and Medical Facilities Pdf

Author : Germany (West). Bundesministerium für Wohnungsbau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Civil defense
ISBN : MINN:31951D03778728U

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Specifications for Radiationproof Shelters by Germany (West). Bundesministerium für Wohnungsbau Pdf

Author : United States. Office of Civil Defense
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Fallout shelters
ISBN : OCLC:428732984

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Shelter Design and Analysis by United States. Office of Civil Defense Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Basements
ISBN : UIUC:30112101024732

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Fallout Protection for Homes with Basements by Anonim Pdf

Author : Cresson H. Kearny
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-19
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781510702059

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Nuclear War Survival Skills by Cresson H. Kearny Pdf

A field-tested guide to surviving a nuclear attack, written by a revered civil defense expert. This edition of Cresson H. Kearny’s iconic Nuclear War Survival Skills (originally published in 1979), updated by Kearny himself in 1987 and again in 2001, offers expert advice for ensuring your family’s safety should the worst come to pass. Chock-full of practical instructions and preventative measures, Nuclear War Survival Skills is based on years of meticulous scientific research conducted by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Featuring a new introduction by ex-Navy SEAL Don Mann, this book also includes: instructions for six different fallout shelters, myths and facts about the dangers of nuclear weapons, tips for maintaining an adequate food and water supply, a foreword by “the father of the hydrogen bomb,” physicist Dr. Edward Teller, and an “About the Author” note by Eugene P. Wigner, physicist and Nobel Laureate. Written at a time when global tensions were at their peak, Nuclear War Survival Skills remains relevant in the dangerous age in which we now live.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Radiology
ISBN : PURD:32754076283161

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Fundamentals Course for Radiological Monitors by Anonim Pdf

Author : U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1122 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Nuclear energy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132167896

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Radiation Safety and Major Activities in the Atomic Energy Programs by U.S. Atomic Energy Commission Pdf

Author : Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Sciences Policy,Committee on Medical Preparedness for a Terrorist Nuclear Event
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-19
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309143967

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Assessing Medical Preparedness to Respond to a Terrorist Nuclear Event by Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Sciences Policy,Committee on Medical Preparedness for a Terrorist Nuclear Event Pdf

A nuclear attack on a large U.S. city by terrorists-even with a low-yield improvised nuclear device (IND) of 10 kilotons or less-would cause a large number of deaths and severe injuries. The large number of injured from the detonation and radioactive fallout that would follow would be overwhelming for local emergency response and health care systems to rescue and treat, even assuming that these systems and their personnel were not themselves incapacitated by the event. The United States has been struggling for some time to address and plan for the threat of nuclear terrorism and other weapons of mass destruction that terrorists might obtain and use. The Department of Homeland Security recently contracted with the Institute of Medicine to hold a workshop, summarized in this volume, to assess medical preparedness for a nuclear detonation of up to 10 kilotons. This book provides a candid and sobering look at our current state of preparedness for an IND, and identifies several key areas in which we might begin to focus our national efforts in a way that will improve the overall level of preparedness.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : United States
ISBN : LOC:00009666989

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Department of Housing and Urban Development, and Certain Independent Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1984: Department of Housing and Urban Development, Federal Emergency Management Agency, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation, Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : United States
ISBN : IND:30000088189000

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Department of Housing and Urban Development, and Certain Independent Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1984 by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies Pdf