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Potential health risks from postulated accidents involving the Pu-238 RTG on the Ulysses solar exploration missionPotential radiation impacts from launch of the Ulysses solar exploration experiment were evaluated using eight postulated accident scenarios. Lifetime individual dose estimates rarely exceeded 1 mrem. Most of the potential health effects would come from inhalation exposures immediately after an accident, rather than from ingestion of contaminated food or water, or from inhalation of resuspended plutonium from contaminated ground. For local Florida accidents (that is, during the first minute after launch), an average source term accident was estimated to cause a total added cancer risk of up to 0.2 deaths. For accidents at later time after launch, a worldwide cancer risk of up to three cases was calculated (with a four in a million probability). Upper bound estimates were calculated to be about 10 times higher.
Document ID
19930029777
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Goldman, Marvin
(California Univ. Davis, United States)
Hoover, Mark D.
(Inhalation Toxicology Research Inst. Albuquerque, NM, United States)
Nelson, Robert C.
(EG&G Idaho, Inc. Idaho Falls, United States)
Templeton, William
(Battelle Pacific Northwest Labs. Richland, WA, United States)
Bollinger, Lance
(USAF, Inspection and Safety Center Kirtland AFB, NM, United States)
Anspaugh, Lynn
(Lawrence Livermore National Lab. Livermore, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 15, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1991
Publication Information
Publication: In: Space nuclear power systems; Proceedings of the 8th Symposium, Albuquerque, NM, Jan. 6-10, 1991. Pt. 1 (A93-13751 03-20)
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
Subject Category
Aerospace Medicine
Accession Number
93A13774
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: W-7405-ENG-48
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
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