Variance of Atmosphere Dispersion Factor for Accident Release from Nuclear Power Plant

Abstract:

The growing concern over the effect of atmosphere dispersion resulted from radioactive material was noticeable. This paper demonstrated the variance of atmosphere dispersion factor for accident release from nuclear power plant through running PAVAN (Atmospheric Dispersion of Radioactive Releases from Nuclear Power Plants) model. Also, we investigated the effect of release height (short for H) on atmosphere dispersion factor and compared the correlation between atmosphere dispersion factor and dispersion distance. Our results showed that atmosphere dispersion factor would descend with increased release height. As dispersion distance increasing, the tendency of atmosphere dispersion factor expressed complicated status caused by the difference of wind direction. It was illustrated that the phenomena was caused by the integrated action between the wind direction and release height. The probability distribution of atmosphere dispersion factor also validated that the distribution was depend on the wind direction. Probability analysis indicated that the atmosphere dispersion factor under H=100m was overall less than that under H=75m.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 518-523)
• Pages: 1242-1246
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.518-523.1242
• Online since: May 2012
• Authors: Rui Ping Guo, Chun Lin Yang
• Keywords: Atmosphere Dispersion Factor, Environmental Impact (EI), PAVAN, Release Height

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