Criteria for Use of Contaminated Food in Post-Shelter NEOP.

Abstract

Summaries are presented of selected reports bearing on the problem of fallout contamination of food in both early and long-term post-attack periods. Relevant factors affecting food contamination are discussed in eight appendices, including; fallout deposition; retention of small fallout particles on vegetation; half-life of fallout on plants; retention of large particles on vegetation; determination of radiation dose to man from small fallout particles on plants; comparison of dosage via milk and meat; dose from stratospheric fallout; and radiological hazard to man from long-lived fission products after a nuclear war. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1974
Accession Number
ADA107893

Entities

People

  • William H. Chapman

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Civil Defense
  • Department Of Defense
  • Dose Rate
  • Endocrine Glands
  • Experimental Data
  • Fission
  • Fission Products
  • Food Chains
  • Isotopes
  • Materials
  • Radiation Dosage
  • Radioactive Decay
  • Radioactivity
  • Surface Burst
  • Temperate Regions
  • Thyroid Glands
  • X Rays

Readers

  • Industrial Economics
  • Nuclear Civil Defense.
  • Nuclear and Radiation Engineering.

Technology Areas

  • Space