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UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST
FACULTY OF PHYSICS Guest
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Conference: Bucharest University Faculty of Physics 2016 Meeting
Section: Nuclear and Elementary Particles Physics
Title:
The analysis of radiological risk for workers involved in the transfer of radioactive liquid wastes arising from decommissioning process of a nuclear reactor
Authors:
C. TUCÃ, A. STOICHIOIU, R. DEJU, F. MIHAI
Affiliation:
Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, P.O.B. MG-6, RO-077125 Magurele, Romania
E-mail
tuca@nipne.ro
Keywords:
radiological risk; activity concentration; equivalent effective dose; nuclear reactor decommissioning
Abstract:
The paper aims to analyze the radiological risk of workers involved in radioactive liquid waste transfer operations (for normal and abnormal circumstances) resulted from the decommissioning process of VVR-S nuclear reactor. The radioactive liquids results from the emptying of the underground buffer tank (source 1) and nuclear spent fuel storage ponds (source 2). The personal equivalent dose Hp(10) received by a worker who performs the transfer operation of the container with liquid waste from ponds to the treatment plant in normal working conditions is calculated based on the activity concentrations measured for liquid effluents and specific dose coefficients. For transfer process of liquid wastes (70 operations) the integral dose is 61.3 ƒÝSv (14.3 ƒÝSv from source 1 and 47 ƒÝSv from source 2). In parallel dose ambient equivalent H*(10) measurements for source 2 are performed using an environment thermo-luminescent system. The dose is 3.8 ƒÝSv and it can be concludes that the operational values are in good agreement with those calculated considering that quantities as being equivalent. The abnormal scenario consists in upside down of the container during the transport and the spreading of liquid on the concrete surface. During the clean-up operation the worker contamination could occur, thus beta dose rates are calculated. The highest values of the dose rate are obtained for the accidental discharges of liquid from the pond - 0.70 ƒÝSv/h - and underground buffer tank - 0.16 ƒÝSv/h - due to the concentration of activity 3.21E+08 Bq and 7.29E+07 respectively.
References:
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Acknowledgement:
The authors offer many thanks to Dr. M. Sahagia for her suggestion and feedback when clarifications of issues were required.
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