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Title: XOQDOQ: computer program for the meteorological evaluation of routine effluent releases at nuclear power stations. Final report

Abstract

Provided is a user's guide for the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) computer program X0QDOQ which implements Regulatory Guide 1.111. This NUREG supercedes NUREG-0324 which was published as a draft in September 1977. This program is used by the NRC meteorology staff in their independent meteorological evaluation of routine or anticipated intermittent releases at nuclear power stations. It operates in a batch input mode and has various options a user may select. Relative atmospheric dispersion and deposition factors are computed for 22 specific distances out to 50 miles from the site for each directional sector. From these results, values for 10 distance segments are computed. The user may also select other locations for which atmospheric dispersion deposition factors are computed. Program features, including required input data and output results, are described. A program listing and test case data input and resulting output are provided.

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Research Org.:
Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (USA)
OSTI Identifier:
6720862
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 6720862; Legacy ID: DE83001346
Report Number(s):
NUREG/CR-2919; PNL-4380
ON: DE83001346
DOE Contract Number:
AC06-76RL01830
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; COMPUTER CODES; X CODES; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; RADIOACTIVE EFFLUENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSPORT; MASS TRANSFER; MATERIALS; NUCLEAR FACILITIES; POWER PLANTS; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; THERMAL POWER PLANTS; WASTES 500300* -- Environment, Atmospheric-- Radioactive Materials Monitoring & Transport-- (-1989)

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Sagendorf, J.F., Goll, J.T., and Sandusky, W.F.. XOQDOQ: computer program for the meteorological evaluation of routine effluent releases at nuclear power stations. Final report. United States: N. p., 1982. Web. doi:10.2172/6720862.
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Sagendorf, J.F., Goll, J.T., & Sandusky, W.F.. XOQDOQ: computer program for the meteorological evaluation of routine effluent releases at nuclear power stations. Final report. United States. doi:10.2172/6720862.
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Sagendorf, J.F., Goll, J.T., and Sandusky, W.F.. Wed . "XOQDOQ: computer program for the meteorological evaluation of routine effluent releases at nuclear power stations. Final report". United States. doi:10.2172/6720862. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/6720862.
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@article{osti_6720862,
title = {XOQDOQ: computer program for the meteorological evaluation of routine effluent releases at nuclear power stations. Final report},
author = {Sagendorf, J.F. and Goll, J.T. and Sandusky, W.F.},
abstractNote = {Provided is a user's guide for the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) computer program X0QDOQ which implements Regulatory Guide 1.111. This NUREG supercedes NUREG-0324 which was published as a draft in September 1977. This program is used by the NRC meteorology staff in their independent meteorological evaluation of routine or anticipated intermittent releases at nuclear power stations. It operates in a batch input mode and has various options a user may select. Relative atmospheric dispersion and deposition factors are computed for 22 specific distances out to 50 miles from the site for each directional sector. From these results, values for 10 distance segments are computed. The user may also select other locations for which atmospheric dispersion deposition factors are computed. Program features, including required input data and output results, are described. A program listing and test case data input and resulting output are provided.},
doi = {10.2172/6720862},
journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1982},
month = {Wed Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1982}
}
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