A Brief User's Guide to the Excel^® -Based DF Calculator

Technical Report · Wed Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 2016

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1255658· OSTI ID:1255658

Jubin, Robert T. ^[1]

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1. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

To understand the importance of capturing penetrating forms of iodine as well as the other volatile radionuclides, a calculation tool was developed in the form of an Excel^® spreadsheet to estimate the overall plant decontamination factor (DF). The tool requires the user to estimate splits of the volatile radionuclides within the major portions of the reprocessing plant, speciation of iodine and individual DFs for each off-gas stream within the Used Nuclear Fuel reprocessing plant. The Impact to the overall plant DF for each volatile radionuclide is then calculated by the tool based on the specific user choices. The Excel^® spreadsheet tracks both elemental and penetrating forms of iodine separately and allows changes in the speciation of iodine at each processing step. It also tracks ³H, ¹⁴C and ⁸⁵Kr. This document provides a basic user's guide to the manipulation of this tool.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-00OR22725
• OSTI ID: 1255658
• Report Number(s): ORNL/SPR-2015/493; AF5805010; NEAF327
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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