User's Manual for RESRAD-BUILD Code Version 4: Vol. 2 - User's Guide for RESRAD-BUILD Code Version 4

Technical Report · Thu Dec 01 04:00:00 EST 2022

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1906349· OSTI ID:1906349

Cheng, J. -J. ^[1]; Gnanapragasam, E. ^[1]; Wang, C. ^[1]; LePoire, D. ^[1]; Kamboj, S. ^[1]; Beckman, K. ^[1]; Yu, C. ^[1]

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1. Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

The RESRAD-BUILD computer code is designed to assess radiological doses to individuals who live or work in a building contaminated with radioactive material. The code is equipped with a user-friendly interface that has many features to facilitate using the computer code and understanding the results. The design of the interface provides various options, from entering data and performing calculations to displaying calculation results. General and context-specific help are available, providing information on editing and viewing the radionuclide database, the definitions of input parameters and their use in the calculations, and the selection of the calculation results for placement into other applications. Two types of sensitivity analysis are supported by the code, i.e., deterministic and probabilistic, that can be used to study the influence of input parameters on the calculation results. This user’s guide provides instructions to help users on how to install the RESRAD-BUILD code, navigate the interface, and use the various features to set up a dose/risk analysis and to view/print the results in text and graphical outputs.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Environmental Management (EM); USDOE Office of Environment, Health, Safety and Security (AU)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-06CH11357
• OSTI ID: 1906349
• Report Number(s): ANL/EVS-21/17-Vol.2; 180358
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

61 RADIATION PROTECTION AND DOSIMETRY
97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING
RESRAD-BUILD
building contamination
building remediation
dose assessment
human health risk assessment
radiation exposure
radiological contamination