Below Regulatory Concern Owners Group: Assessment of the IMPACTS-BRC code: Final report
Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) has initiated a special program effort for the development of a Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) rulemaking petition to exempt certain very low activity nuclear power plant waste types as being Below Regulatory Concern (BRC). EPRI is to provide the technical research to support the BRC petition. One of the research tasks in the EPRI program entails a review and verification of the IMPACTS-BRC computer program used by NRC to independently evaluate individual and population radiological impacts from routine treatment and disposal of BRC wastes. A review of the IMPACTS-BRC computer program has been made to evaluate the sensitivity of the code to modeling assumptions and parameter values, assess conservatisms in the code, and verify that the code correctly performs the specified dose calculations. This report describes the results of this review. 6 refs., 3 figs., 13 tabs.
- Research Organization:
- Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (USA); Rogers and Associates Engineering Corp., Salt Lake City, UT (USA)
- OSTI ID:
- 6116530
- Report Number(s):
- EPRI-NP-5679
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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