Contaminated Vehicle Protection Factors for the CF Grizzly

Abstract

Measurements of dose rates at 10 locations inside a radiologically contaminated CF Grizzly Light Armoured Vehicle were made at a French army facility. This permits calculation of the radiation protection factors for the locations inside the vehicle. The contaminated vehicle protection factors varied between 3.3 and 6.9, depending on position within the vehicle, averaging 5.7. These values are consistent with previous measurements made at DREO. These results were also used to test DREO's ability to use data from its Source-in-a-Tube simulator to predict dose rates inside a non- uniformly contaminated vehicle. These measurements not only provide a thorough characterization of the radiation protection offered by the Grizzly, but also validate the use of the SIT simulator as a tool for evaluating radiation protection of vehicles.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2001
Accession Number
ADA399912

Entities

People

  • Dean S. Haslip

Organizations

  • Defence Research and Development Canada

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Armored Vehicles
  • Classification
  • Detectors
  • Dose Rate
  • Dosimeters
  • Free Field
  • Gamma Rays
  • Measurement
  • Military Operations
  • National Security
  • Radiation
  • Radiation Protection
  • Radiation Shielding
  • Security
  • Simulators
  • Vehicles

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Military Science
  • Nuclear and Radiation Engineering.