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Calculation of the Dose for Public Individuals Due to a Severe Accident at the Angra 2 Nuclear Plant, Brazil

In: Nuclear Power Plants - The Processes from the Cradle to the Grave

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  • Andre S. De Aguiar
  • Seung Min Lee
  • Gaiane Sabundjian

Abstract

Through a severe accident at nuclear power plant Angra 2, the whole body dose effective of the individuals members of the public located in the Emergency Planning Zones (EPZs) will be calculated, and later, the protective actions in these EPZs will be analyzed. Two different scenarios of radionuclide release into the atmosphere will be considered. In the first scenario, 2 h of the release of Xe, Cs, Ba, and Te, and the second scenario, 168 h of release.

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  • Andre S. De Aguiar & Seung Min Lee & Gaiane Sabundjian, 2021. "Calculation of the Dose for Public Individuals Due to a Severe Accident at the Angra 2 Nuclear Plant, Brazil," Chapters, in: Nasser Sayed Awwad (ed.), Nuclear Power Plants - The Processes from the Cradle to the Grave, IntechOpen.
    • Handle: RePEc:ito:pchaps:212817
    DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.92200
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    Keywords

    MELCOR; CALPUFF; atmospheric dispersion; nuclear power plant; public individuals dose;
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    • Q40 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - General

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