Feasibility of Citizen Construction of Expedient Fallout Shelters.

Abstract

Seventeen families attempted to build seven types of earth-covered expedient fallout shelters while guided only by one-page shelter-building instructions prepared by DCPA. Within 48 hours of starting, all but one family succeeded in building a shelter affording good fallout protection. Families spent an average of 88 minutes trying to interpret their one page of instructions. The abbreviated DCPA instructions for building an expedient shelter-ventilating pump -- essential for the multiday occupancy of below-ground shelters, except in cold weather -- were followed successfully by only four out of nine families. This report makes numerous recommendations for improving all the instructions. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1978
Accession Number
ADA058051

Entities

People

  • John F. A. Seggar
  • Reese J. Goodwin
  • Spencer J. Condie

Organizations

  • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Civil Defense
  • Civil Engineering
  • Construction
  • Construction Materials
  • Contracts
  • Corporations
  • Earth Fills
  • Excavation
  • Fallout Shelters
  • Flow
  • Groundwater
  • Native Americans
  • Nuclear Fallout
  • United States
  • Universities

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