Accession Number:

ADA010804

Title:

Process Control Instrumentation: Vulnerability and Manufacturer/User Response to Nuclear Attack.

Descriptive Note:

Final rept.,

Corporate Author:

URS RESEARCH CO SAN MATEO CALIF

Personal Author(s):

• Van Horn,William H.
• Crain,O. Leon

Report Date:

1975-02-01

Pagination or Media Count:

212.0

Abstract:

The report concerns process control instrument system both pneumatic and electric as used in a variety of critical industries including basic chemicals manufacture, petroleum refineries, and electric power utilities and the vulnerability of the manufacturing industry SIC 3821 to nuclear attack and subsequent repair requirements associated with various damage levels. Interrelationships and trade-offs, possible between the users of instrumentation, instrumentation systems themselves, and the manufacturers, are explored. Options for alleviating such instrumentation shortages as may arise following nuclear attack are discussed.

Descriptors:

• *INSTRUMENTATION
• CONTROL
• MANUFACTURING
• PROCESSING
• VULNERABILITY
• INDUSTRIAL PLANTS
• NUCLEAR EXPLOSION DAMAGE

Subject Categories:

• Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering and Control of Production Systems

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE