Dose Calculation For Accidental Release Of Radioactive Cloud Passing Over Jeddah
- Physics Dept., Sciences Faculty for Girls, King Abdulaziz University Jeddah (Saudi Arabia)
For the evaluation of doses after the reactor accident, in particular for the inhalation dose, a thorough knowledge of the concentration of the various radionuclide in air during the passage of the plume is required. In this paper we present an application of the Gaussian Plume Model (GPM) to calculate the atmospheric dispersion and airborne radionuclide concentration resulting from radioactive cloud over the city of Jeddah (KSA). The radioactive cloud is assumed to be emitted from a reactor of 10 MW power in postulated accidental release. Committed effective doses (CEDs) to the public at different distance from the source to the receptor are calculated. The calculations were based on meteorological condition and data of the Jeddah site. These data are: pasquill atmospheric stability is the class B and the wind speed is 2.4m/s at 10m height in the N direction. The residence time of some radionuclides considered in this study were calculated. The results indicate that, the values of doses first increase with distance, reach a maximum value and then gradually decrease. The total dose received by human is estimated by using the estimated values of residence time of each radioactive pollutant at different distances.
- OSTI ID:
- 21612461
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1400, Issue 1; Conference: International congress on advances in applied physics and materials science, Antalya (Turkey), 12-15 May 2011; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.3663154; (c) 2011 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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