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 Building Protection Against
External Ionizing Fallout Radiation, (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.