Blast effects on glass vacuum containers /
by Edwin P. Lang and Harold V. Leininger.

Description

Main Author

Laug, Edwin P.

Related Names

Leininger, Harold V.
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Civil Effects Test Operations Office.
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.
United States. Federal Civil Defense Administration.

Language(s)

English

Published

Washington, D.C. : Food and Drug Administration ; 1958.

Subjects

Nuclear explosions.
Glass > Glass / Effect of radiation on.
Blast effect.
Glass > Glass / Effect of radiation on.
Nuclear explosions.
Blast effect.
Operation Plumbbob, Nev., 1957.

Summary

Case lots of Federal Civil Defense Administration perfusion and blood-collecting bottles were exposed to a nuclear explosion of approximately twice nominal yield. The bottles, packed six to a paperboard carton, were exposed in trenches and mile from Ground Zero (GZ). There was 40 per cent failure in the 1000-ml perfusion bottles with limited evacuated head space and 23 per cent failure in those bottles with the vacuum relieved before exposure. There were no failures in the blood-collecting bottles containing 120 ml of fluid with 600 ml of evacuated head space. Greatest failure in the 1000-ml perfusion bottle occurred in the cartons placed on their sides with the tops facing GZ. Sterility and pyrogen tests of the bottle contents indicated that there were no "hidden failures" in any bottle seals.

Note

Accession No.: 53483.
Misc. No.: Project 38.1-II.
Misc. No.: WT-1461.
"Issuance date: September 19, 1958."
"WT-1461 ; AEC Category: Health and Safety ; Military Categories: 5-50 and 5-70."
"Civil Effects Test Group."--Cover.
"Operation Plumbbob - Nevada test site - May-October 1957."
Cover title.

Physical Description

14 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

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