Potential health risks from postulated accidents involving the Pu-238 RTG (radioisotope thermoelectric generator) on the Ulysses solar exploration mission.

Potential 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 acci...

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Corporate Authors: United States. Department of Defense
United States. Department of Energy. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Defense Programs
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
United States. Department of Energy. Technical Information Center
United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information
Language:English
Published: Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Oak Ridge, Tenn. : United States. Department of Energy. Technical Information Center ; Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Department of Energy, 1990.
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Physical Description:Pages: (16 pages).
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245 0 0 |a Potential health risks from postulated accidents involving the Pu-238 RTG (radioisotope thermoelectric generator) on the Ulysses solar exploration mission. 
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500 |a 8. symposium on space nuclear power systems, Albuquerque, NM (USA), 6-10 Jan 1991. 
500 |a Nelson, R.C.; Anspaugh, L.; Templeton, W.; Goldman, M.; Hoover, M.D. . Inhalation Toxicology Res; Bollinger, L.. 
500 |a Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (USA) 
520 3 |a Potential 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 times 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. 83 refs. 
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650 4 |a Earth Atmosphere. 
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650 4 |a Plutonium 238. 
650 4 |a Radiation Hazards. 
650 4 |a Plutonium Dioxide. 
650 4 |a Radiation Accidents. 
650 4 |a Risk Assessment. 
650 4 |a Space Vehicles. 
650 4 |a Environmental Impacts. 
650 4 |a Meteorology. 
650 4 |a Radiation Doses. 
650 4 |a Source Terms. 
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650 4 |a Direct Energy Converters. 
650 4 |a Doses. 
650 4 |a Environmental Transport. 
650 4 |a Even-even Nuclei. 
650 4 |a Hazards. 
650 4 |a Health Hazards. 
650 4 |a Heavy Ion Decay Radioisotopes. 
650 4 |a Heavy Nuclei. 
650 4 |a Isotopes. 
650 4 |a Mass Transfer. 
650 4 |a Nuclei. 
650 4 |a Oxides. 
650 4 |a Oxygen Compounds. 
650 4 |a Plutonium Compounds. 
650 4 |a Plutonium Isotopes. 
650 4 |a Plutonium Oxides. 
650 4 |a Populations. 
650 4 |a Radioisotopes. 
650 4 |a Silicon 32 Decay Radioisotopes. 
650 4 |a Transuranium Compounds. 
650 4 |a Vehicles. 
650 4 |a Years Living Radioisotopes. 
650 4 |a Radiation, Thermal, And Other Environ. Pollutant Effects On Living Orgs. And Biol. Mat. 
650 4 |a Direct Energy Conversion. 
650 4 |a Environmental Sciences. 
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