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DTRA’s advancements in nuclear and radiological detection
A new, more complex nuclear age has begun. Echoing the tensions of the Cold War amid rapidly evolving nuclear and radiological threats, preparedness in the modern age is a contest of scientific innovation. The Research and Development Directorate (RD) at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) is charged with winning this contest.
M. Leimdorfer, R. G. Alsmiller, Jr., and R. T. Boughner
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 27 | Number 2 | February 1967 | Pages 151-157
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE67-A18259
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Monte Carlo transport calculations have been carried out to estimate the dose travelers in supersonic aircraft will receive from a typical spectrum of solar-flare protons. The dose, from both primary protons and secondary particles, as a function of depth in a tissue slab placed at various depths in the atmosphere, has been obtained. The incident spectrum is broken into eight energy regions and the dose from the incident protons in each of these regions is presented.