Science and Technology Directorate, National Urban Security Technology Laboratory US Department of Defense (DOD). (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States) Sponsoring Org.: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) USDOE Office of Science (SC) US Department of Homeland Security (DHS. Publication Date: Research Org.: Lawrence Livermore National Lab. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States) Stanford Univ., CA (United States) (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States) Univ. These include the improving the understanding of residential basement protection, additional experimental data on non-residential buildings (particularly schools and industrial buildings), and the frequency of brick veneer and stucco exterior residential buildings. This work also highlights key areas where further investigation will improve the current results. Residential buildings are less protective and those with lighter weight walls lack adequate, above ground protection. Most people in non-residential buildings are adequately protected, particularly below ground or in the building center. We find that indoor radiation protection varies by orders of magnitude. This approach provides a consistent, quantitative understanding of US building protection and, when combined with the distribution of people among different buildings, can assist in selecting emergency response strategies. We provide here a high-level modeling analysis of modern US building protection based on a novel radiation protection building attribute taxonomy, a new building protection model, compilation of prior experimental results, and nationally representative building survey data. However, most US building types, particularly non-residential buildings, lack quantitative estimates. Being indoors (sheltering) reduces radiation exposures resulting from nuclear fallout or a power-plant accident.
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