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Prediction of eye safe separation distances
Författare
Richey E O
Utgivare
USAF School of Aerospace Medicine
Utgivningsår
1966-06
A method is given for predicting the distances at which the thermal radiation from nuclear detonations will be hazardous to the unprotected human eye. This method relates calculated retinal exposure to experimentally determined eye effects data. Eye hazards as a function of distance are determined for the unprotected human eye exposed to sea-level, air-burst detonations from 0.01 to 10 kt yield. The pupil diameter of the human eye is taken to be 2.5 mm. and 6.0 mm. respectively, for day and niqht conditions and the effective focal length of the eye is taken to be 17 mm. Nuclear detonation characteristics and scaling factors are taken from Glasstones "The Effects of Nuclear Weapons". The results indicate that the eye hazard is the limiting factor in determining the distance of nearest approach to a nuclear detonation unless eye protection is provided. Eye hazards as a function of distance are also determined for the human eye protected from daytime detonations by a 2% transmission fixed filter. The results indicate that use of such a filter will provide eye protection at distances where other hazards become limiting factors.