A review of numerical models to predict the atmospheric dispersion of radionuclides

Á Leelőssy, I Lagzi, A Kovács, R Mészáros - Journal of environmental …, 2018 - Elsevier
The field of atmospheric dispersion modeling has evolved together with nuclear risk
assessment and emergency response systems. Atmospheric concentration and deposition …

Application of atmospheric dispersion modelling in finding optimal locations of early warning stations around a nuclear power plant

R Dąbrowski, D Kikoła - Progress in Nuclear Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
The paper investigates a practical problem of finding optimal locations of radiometric
detectors for the automatic early warning measurements around nuclear facilities. The …

Sequential multi-nuclide emission rate estimation method based on gamma dose rate measurement for nuclear emergency management

X Zhang, W Raskob, C Landman, D Trybushnyi… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2017 - Elsevier
In case of a nuclear accident, the source term is typically not known but extremely important
for the assessment of the consequences to the affected population. Therefore the …

Long-Term Contamination of the Arabian Gulf as a Result of Hypothetical Nuclear Power Plant Accidents

V Maderich, R Bezhenar, I Kovalets… - Journal of Marine …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Long-term consequences of radionuclide contamination of the Arabian Gulf as a result of
hypothetical accidents at the Bushehr and Barakah nuclear power plants (NPPs) were …

Autoencoder-driven weather clustering for source estimation during nuclear events

IA Klampanos, A Davvetas, S Andronopoulos… - … Modelling & Software, 2018 - Elsevier
Emergency response applications for nuclear or radiological events can be significantly
improved via deep feature learning due its ability to capture the inherent complexity of the …

Integrated system for population dose calculation and decision making on protection measures in case of an accident with air emissions in a nuclear power plant

P Mlakar, MZ Božnar, B Grašič, B Breznik - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
The accidents in Chernobyl and Fukushima remind us that nuclear power plants should
continuously invest resources in improving safety and in risk management. This paper …

Method of source identification following an accidental release at an unknown location using a lagrangian atmospheric dispersion model

S Andronopoulos, IV Kovalets - Atmosphere, 2021 - mdpi.com
A computationally efficient source inversion algorithm was developed and applied with the
Lagrangian atmospheric dispersion model DIPCOT. In the process of source location …

KIT reactor safety research for LWRs: Research lines, numerical tools, and prospects

VH Sanchez-Espinoza, F Gabrielli, U Imke… - … Engineering and Design, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper describes the main research lines of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
relevant to Light Water Reactors (LWR) that permit both the safety evaluation of different …

Dispersion and ground deposition of radioactive material according to airflow patterns for enhancing the preparedness to N/R emergencies

MA Hernández-Ceballos, M Sangiorgi… - Journal of environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
The intent of minimizing the impact of the large amount of radioactive material potentially
released into the atmosphere in a nuclear event implies preparedness activities. In the early …

Derivation of the source term, dose results and associated radiological consequences for the Greek Research Reactor–1

C Pappas, A Ikonomopoulos, A Sfetsos… - … Engineering and Design, 2014 - Elsevier
The estimated source term, dose results and radiological consequences of selected
accident sequences in the Greek Research Reactor–1 are presented and discussed. A …