THE CONTAMINATION BEHAVIOR OF FALLOUT-LIKE PARTICLES EJECTED BY VOLCANO IRAZU

Abstract

Photographs of objects contaminated with particles ejected from volcano Irazu in Costa Rica are presented to indicate the nature of particle behavior in various environmental situations. The similarity between the particles ejected by the volcano and the fallout particles produced by land- surface nuclear detonations suggests that the contamination behavior of the radioactive fallout particles would be similar to that observed for the volcanic particles. The peculiarities of the particle behavior are discussed in rather general terms in the figure captions for each situation depicted.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1966
Accession Number
AD0634901

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People

  • Carl F. Miller

Organizations

  • SRI International

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Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Civil Defense
  • Classification
  • Contamination
  • Costa Rica
  • Detonations
  • Drops
  • Explosions
  • Materials
  • Nuclear Explosions
  • Nuclear Fallout
  • Nuclear Weapons
  • Particles
  • Photographs
  • Plants
  • Radiation
  • Security
  • Vegetables

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