Krypton-85 Powered Lights for Airfield Application.

Abstract

Airfield lighting is complex in its requirements for lights of various intensities and colors. Some applications such as taxiway lights, information signs, and combat situations may be served by lights of relatively low intensity. They should meet criteria such as energy efficiency, little or no dependence upon batteries or generators, low maintenance, and rapid deployment. Lights powered with krypton-85 provide some of these advantages. This report summarizes an effort to develop krypton-85 powered airfield lighting. Light is produced when beta rays from krypton-85 excite a phosphor. Phosphors selected produced blue, red, and yellow-green light. Field testing of the lights was sufficiently encouraging to continue development in a follow-on effort. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1981
Accession Number
ADA116455

Entities

People

  • F. Neil Case
  • Karl W. Haff

Organizations

  • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Band Theory Of Solids
  • Beta Particles
  • Compound Semiconductors
  • Corporations
  • Elements
  • Energy Bands
  • Engineering
  • Fiber Optics
  • Gamma Rays
  • Light Sources
  • Nuclear Energy
  • Production
  • Radiation
  • Radiation Protection

Readers

  • Chemistry (specifically Chemical Fluorescence)
  • Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).
  • Pulsed Power and Plasma Physics.