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The U.S. Million Person Study of Low-Dose-Rate Health Effects
There is a critical knowledge gap regarding the health consequences of exposure to radiation received gradually over time. While there is a plethora of studies on the risks of adverse outcomes from both acute and high-dose exposures, including the landmark study of atomic bomb survivors, these are not characteristic of the chronic exposure to low-dose radiation encountered in occupational and public settings. In addition, smaller cohorts have limited numbers leading to reduced statistical power.
M. H. Anderson, J. G. Oakley, M. A. Coil, R. Bonazza, R. R. Peterson
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 2 | March 2001 | Pages 828-833
Chamber Technology | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963342
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Many inertial confinement fusion (ICF) reactor designs incorporate a bank of cooling tubes as the first structural wall. These tubes provide important functions such as heat transfer and fuel breeding and must endure the cyclic impact of the shock waves formed from reaction of the fuel. Shock tube experiments and parallel numerical studies are conducted for shock waves incident on banks of instrumented cylinders meant to simulate the first wall of cooling tubes. Images of diffracted shocks, cylinder surface pressure traces, and calculated force distributions describe the interaction between the shock and the bank of cylinders. The numerical model shows good agreement with the experimental data.