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SECTION 3
IDEALIZED CONTOUR RATIO SCALING FUNCTIONS
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3.1 GENERAL DISCUSSION

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The idealized scaling functions are presented first to introduce
a simple working model that can be tested and modified in a consistent
manner by use of available data. The model detonation will be a surface land detonation in which all of the radionuclides produced are

retained by the total mass (clay soil) removed from the crater.

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fallout thus produced will then deposit over an ideal smooth plane. A
mathematical derivation of the contour ratio scaling functions for the
idealized case follows.

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DEFINITION OF THE MASS CONTOUR RATIO
At any point in the fallout area, the mass contour ratio is defined

H(t) = n/T(t)

(1)

in which m is the mass of fallout per unit area, and I(t) is the radia-

tion intensity (say, at 3 ft above an extended plane source of radioactivity) at the time, t, after detonation. ‘The mass contour ratio,

defined as a grand average function is

W(t) = M,/1,(t)

por/NwY

(2)

in which Mp is the integrated value of m over the whole fallout area

end Ip(t) is the integrated value of I(t) over the same area. Evaluation

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