Estimation of radiation doses for transition from emergency to existing exposure situation

• Authors: Abdelfatah A. Hamed , E. F. Salem , Asmaa K. Abdien
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The transition from emergency to existing exposure situation is an important stage in the nuclear or radiological emergency plan. It requires arrangements to be put in place and to be implemented so as to ensure that the transition is made in a coordinated and orderly manner of guidelines for adjusting the undertaken protective actions and other response actions. The delivering radiation doses to public and environmental pollution are monitoring that measurements should be implemented according to certain plan of intervention and protective actions in the different stages of the N/R accident. In this study, a computer model (RASCAL) is used to calculate the effect of severe accident could have detected on an operating nuclear power reactor PWR and the possible impact on the public. Features for the decision to implement the transition from emergency to existing exposure situation are proposed depending on the estimation of the collection of deliver exposure doses to the public and environment due to monitoring the different radiation sources resulting from the N/R accident.

Keywords

EN

nuclear emergency; emergency computer code; severe accident

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Nukleonika
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 60
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 943-950

Dates

published

1 - 12 - 2015

received

19 - 8 - 2013

accepted

24 - 10 - 2014

online

30 - 12 - 2015

Contributors

author

Abdelfatah A. Hamed

• Egypt Nuclear and Radiological Regulatory Authority, Nasr City, P. O. Box 7551, Cairo, Egypt

author

E. F. Salem

• Egypt Nuclear and Radiological Regulatory Authority, Nasr City, P. O. Box 7551, Cairo, Egypt

author

Asmaa K. Abdien

• Egypt Nuclear and Radiological Regulatory Authority, Nasr City, P. O. Box 7551, Cairo, Egypt

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/nuka-2015-0146