Value chain · CLM-1287
In plain terms
In 1978 a draft plan for the US satellite power programme proposed that every lab test rats the same way, at fixed microwave levels from far below to just above the beam-centre level of the later reference design, for at least four hours a day, and later for 23 hours a day.
The claim as recorded
A 1978 draft programme recommendation for assessing the health effects of the Satellite Power System microwave beam proposed a "Core Program" of standard exposure conditions so that results from many laboratories could be compared. For the near term it specified male and female Sprague-Dawley rats from major US suppliers, exposed in the far field or in waveguide at two or more of 0.1, 1.0, 10 and 25 mW/cm2 or the equivalent specific absorption rate, with the specific absorption rate measured for each exposure configuration, an emphasis on four hours a day or more and seven days a week, at 22 to 24 deg C and 45 to 55 per cent relative humidity. For intermediate and long-term objectives it said more stringent criteria, such as 23 hours a day, seven days a week over a range of temperatures, would be required.
Evidence behind this: T3, a draft research-programme recommendation addressed to the US Department of Energy, with no issuing body printed; it permits "the 1978 draft recommended Y" only. It reports no results.
Scope and limits
A DRAFT, unsigned and with no issuing body printed; whether the Core Program was adopted is not on these pages. These are planned exposure conditions, not results. The four levels in W/m2 are 1, 10, 100 and 250 W/m2 (our conversion). The draft does not tie any level to a beam-centre or boundary value; the comparison in plain (25 mW/cm2 against the later 1978 reference design's 23 mW/cm2 at the rectenna centre, CLM-0071) is ours. The cover date is read from a partly cut-off top edge.
What it assumes
No assumptions are recorded against this claim.
Where it comes from
text, PDF p.4 (render read): "Standardizing experimental animals and exposure conditions will provide a framework for the comparison and integration of research results"; "Strain - Sprague-Dawley"; "Power Densities (far field) - Two or more of the following, 0.1, 1.0, 10, and 25 mW/cm2 or the equivalent specific absorption rate"; "Specific Absorption Rates - Must be measured for each exposure configuration"; "Emphasis on four hours/day or more"; "Temperature - 22-24 deg C"; "Relative Humidity - 45-55%". PDF p.5: "Temperature and humidity controls are necessary because of their known influence on microwave effects"; "exposures for 23 hours per day, seven days per week over a range of temperatures would be required".
Basis: mW/cm2 far-field incident power density at 2450 MHz (1 mW/cm2 = 10 W/m2); hours per day
Related records
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Cite this
energyaperture.com/c/clm-1287
CLM-1287, Energy Aperture, as of 1978-03.
Connected records
Other published records linked to this one. A list, not a judgement.
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