Supplemental Material for Building Protection Against External Ionizing Fallout Radiation

The US Department of Defense is implementing the Regional Shelter Analysis methodology to improve the ability of the Hazard Prediction and Assessment Capability (HPAC) model to account for building protection. This HPAC improvement effort requires accurate estimates of building protection for common building construction types worldwide. The main report, titled <i>Building Protection Against External Ionizing Fallout Radiation,</i> (a) describes the physics most relevant to assessing fallout building protection, (b) identifies a set of key building attributes that are sufficient to characterize fallout shelter quality for individual buildings, and (c) assesses the degree to which the building attributes can characterize fallout shelter quality. This report provides more detail on the data used to verify the conclusions presented in the main report.