Radiological assessments for the National Ignition Facility

Conference · Thu Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 1996

OSTI ID:381735

Hong, Kou-John; Lazaro, M A

The potential radiological impacts of the National Ignition Facility (NIF), a proposed facility for fusion ignition and high energy density experiments, were assessed for five candidate sites to assist in site selection. The GENII computer program was used to model releases of radionuclides during normal NIF operations and a postulated accident and to calculate radiation doses to the public. Health risks were estimated by converting the estimated doses into health effects using a standard cancer fatality risk factor. The greatest calculated radiation dose was less than one thousandth of a percent of the dose received from natural background radiation; no cancer fatalities would be expected to occur in the public as the result of normal operations. The highest dose conservatively estimated to result from a postulated accident could lead to one in one million risk of cancer.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Lab., IL (United States). Environmental Assessment Div.
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-31109-ENG-38
• OSTI ID: 381735
• Report Number(s): ANL/EA/CP-88826; CONF-9606116-66; ON: DE96013021; TRN: 96:028305
• Resource Relation: Conference: Annual meeting of the American Nuclear Society (ANS), Reno, NV (United States), 16-20 Jun 1996; Other Information: PBD: [1996]
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION
56 BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
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LASER FUSION REACTORS
RADIATION PROTECTION
MAN
BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS
RADIATION MONITORING
RADIOACTIVE EFFLUENTS
TRITIUM
PROBABILISTIC ESTIMATION
DESIGN BASIS ACCIDENTS
SAFETY ENGINEERING
SAFETY
DOSIMETRY
INERTIAL CONFINEMENT
NEOPLASMS