Probabilistic accident consequence uncertainty analysis: Food chain uncertainty assessment. Volume 2: Appendices
- National Radiological Protection Board (United Kingdom)
- Delft Univ. of Technology (Netherlands); and others
This volume is the second of a two-volume document that summarizes a joint project by the US Nuclear Regulatory and the Commission of European Communities to assess uncertainties in the MACCS and COSYMA probabilistic accident consequence codes. These codes were developed primarily for estimating the risks presented by nuclear reactors based on postulated frequencies and magnitudes of potential accidents. This two-volume report, which examines mechanisms and uncertainties of transfer through the food chain, is the first in a series of five such reports. A panel of sixteen experts was formed to compile credible and traceable uncertainty distributions for food chain transfer that affect calculations of offsite radiological consequences. Seven of the experts reported on transfer into the food chain through soil and plants, nine reported on transfer via food products from animals, and two reported on both. The expert judgment elicitation procedure and its outcomes are described in these volumes. This volume contains seven appendices. Appendix A presents a brief discussion of the MAACS and COSYMA model codes. Appendix B is the structure document and elicitation questionnaire for the expert panel on soils and plants. Appendix C presents the rationales and responses of each of the members of the soils and plants expert panel. Appendix D is the structure document and elicitation questionnaire for the expert panel on animal transfer. The rationales and responses of each of the experts on animal transfer are given in Appendix E. Brief biographies of the food chain expert panel members are provided in Appendix F. Aggregated results of expert responses are presented in graph format in Appendix G.
- Research Organization:
- US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), Washington, DC (United States). Div. of Systems Technology; Commission of the European Communities, Brussels (Belgium); National Radiological Protection Board, Harwell (United Kingdom); Technische Univ. Delft (Netherlands); Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States); New Mexico Univ., Albuquerque, NM (United States); Lockheed Idaho Technologies Co., Idaho Falls, ID (United States); Hawaii Univ., Hilo, HI (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC (United States); Commission of the European Communities, Brussels (Belgium)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC04-94AL85000
- OSTI ID:
- 510291
- Report Number(s):
- NUREG/CR-6523-Vol.2; EUR-16771-Vol.2; SAND-97-0335-Vol.2; ON: TI97007927; CNN: Contract EC F13P-CT92-0023; Contract EC 930ET 001; TRN: 97:014504
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: Jun 1997
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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