Radiological dose assessment for bounding accident scenarios at the Critical Experiment Facility, TA-18, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Technical Report · Sun Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1991

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/206376· OSTI ID:206376

A computer modeling code, CRIT8, was written to allow prediction of the radiological doses to workers and members of the public resulting from these postulated maximum-effect accidents. The code accounts for the relationships of the initial parent radionuclide inventory at the time of the accident to the growth of radioactive daughter products, and considers the atmospheric conditions at time of release. The code then calculates a dose at chosen receptor locations for the sum of radionuclides produced as a result of the accident. Both criticality and non-criticality accidents are examined.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Los Alamos Technical Associates, Inc., NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-36
• OSTI ID: 206376
• Report Number(s): LA-SUB-94-90; ON: DE96006864; TRN: 96:008790
• Resource Relation: Other Information: PBD: Sep 1991
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

56 BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
APPLIED STUDIES
05 NUCLEAR FUELS
RADIATION ACCIDENTS
DOSIMETRY
RADIATION DOSES
COMPUTER CALCULATIONS
CRITICALITY
RISK ASSESSMENT
EXPERIMENTAL REACTORS
REACTOR SAFETY