DOE Environmantal Assessment Executive

Cover	1
Title Page	3
Forward	5
Table of Contents	7
Purpose	9
Introduction	9
1: Microwave Health and Ecological Effects	11
2: Other Effects on Health and the Environment	17
2.1 Effects on the public	18
2.1.1 Impacts of Conventional Processes	18
2.1.2 Unconventional Effects	21
2.2 Effects on terrestrial workers	26
2.2.1 Impacts of Conventional Processes	27
2.2.2 Unconventional Effects	28
2.3 Effects on space workers	28
2.3.1 Weightlessness	29
2.3.2 Life Support	30
2.3.3 Radiation	30
2.4 Effects on the environment	31
3: Effects on the Atmosphere (Including Climatology)	33
3.1 Microwave and rectenna-related effects in the troposhpere	36
3.2 Nonmicrowave atmospheric effects above 60km	38
3.3 Nonmicrowave effects on the stratosphere/magnetoshpere	40
4: Effects on Communication Systems	41
4.1 Electromagnetic compatibility	41
4.1.1Methodology	41
4.1.2 State of Knowledge	43
4.1.3 Preliminary Assessment	44
4.1.4 Conclusions and Recommendations	50
4.2 Ionospheric heating and vehicle effluent effects	52
List of Figures	7
Fig. 1.1. Exposure of Humans and Ecosystems to Microwave Energy from the Satellite Power System	12
Fig. 1.2. Possible Human Health Effects from SPS Microwaves	13
Fig. 1.3. Possible Ecological Effects from SPS Microwaves	14
Fig. 2.1. Nonmicrowave Effects of SPS on the Public	18
Fig. 2.2. SPS Material Requirements	19
Fig. 2.3. SPS Environmental Impacts	20
Fig. 2.4. Recommended Maximum Launch-Related Air Pollutant Concentrations	23
Fig. 2.5. Maximum Allowable Concentrations of Propellants in Watersound	24
Fig 2.6 Launch Noise Profile	25
Fig 2.7 Nonmicrowave Effects of SPS on Terrestrial Workers	26
Fig. 2.8. Occupational Injury and Illness from Conventional SPS Causes	27
Fig. 2.9. Nonmicrowave Effects of SPS on Space Workers	29
Fig. 3.1. Regions of the Atmosphere	34
Fig. 3.2. Summary of Some Potential Atmospheric Effects Caused by Rocket Exhaust	35
Fig. 3.3. Climatological and Heating Effects of the Microwave Power Transmission System in the Lower Atmosphere	37
Fig. 4.1. SPS Radio Frequency and Electromagnetic Interference	41
Fig. 4.2. Basic EMC Analyses Elements	42
Fig. 4.3. SPS Transmitting Antenna Pattern	44
Fig. 4.4. Effect of SPS Microwave Transmission on the Ionosphere and Telecommunication Systems	52
List of Tables	8
Table 4.1. Selected Site Distances from Mojave Rectenna	45
Table 4.2 Scatter Power Densities - Average Rain Conditions	47
Table 4.3. Induced-Functional-Degradation Summary - Mojave Area	49

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