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THE SHORTER-TERM BIOLOGICAL

HAZARDS OF A FALLOUT FIELD

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THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS OF THE GAMMA RADIATION SPECTRUM, BTC.

INITIAL BOMGAMMA RADIATIONS
Tn order (0 calculate a solution for an actual
weapon source, however, the emission spectra
of tho previously mentioned fission product
gammaa and nitrogen capture gammas must be
known, and the absolute abundance of cach

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of these soureca must be weighted according

to the pertinent. weapon parameters in order
to determine air doses and spectra as a function
of distance. These considerations are treated
in detail in the classified literature and will not
be developed here. In substance, however,
appropriate fission productand nitrogen capture

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Ptr, x10"

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¥(r,B) = Integral Roergy
D(r,E) « Integral Dose
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ENERGY (Mev)
Fraunn 2.--Point isotropic source, integral energy and dose spectra at 1,000 yards, Eo 2 Men,

attenuated

photons only.

In

other words,

then, the dose build-up factor can be determinedtheoretically by this method.

Thus the

build-up factor for a 10 Mev source 3,000 yards
awayin air would be one divided by one minus
0.66, or 2.27.

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By using such interpolation curves and com-

bining solutions for several energies, one can

determine spectra from polyenergetic gamma
sources, thus beginning to approach the case of
an actual bomb gammasource. As an example,
Figure 7 presents an integral dose spectrum

1,000 yards away from an arbitrary source
made up of 40 percent 1 Mev photons, 15 percent 2 Mev, 6.7 percent 3 Mev, and 2.5 percent
4 Mev photons.

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ENERGY (Mev)
Frovure3. ~~Point isotropic source, differential energy spectrum, at 3,000 yards, Ho=2 Mev.
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