Search for methods and materials for practical use of residential radiation doses calculated via a standardized local methodology

The aim of this work is on determination of standard parameters for computing residential doses per year near the nuclear power plants with consideration of local circumstances in Korea that may not be similar to those in the foreign developed power plants. All the data presented here was originated from four Korean nuclear power plants that are located along the seashore in the south provinces of Korea. We have selected critical nuclei, pathways and human organs related to the human exposure via simulated estimation with K-DOSE 60 based on the updated ICRP-60 with laborious addition of experimental input from key other Korean nuclear research organizations. From those results, we found that 1) the critical nuclides were found to be 3H, 133Xe, 60Co for Kori plant and 14C, 41Ar for Wolsung plant. The most critical pathway was 'vegetable intake' for adults and 'milk intake' for infants. However, there was no preference in the effective organs, and 2) sensitivity analyses showed that the chemical composition in a nuclide much more influenced upon the radiation dose than any other input parameters such as food intake, radiation discharge, and transfer/concentration coefficients by more than 102 factor. The effect of transfer/concentration coefficients on the radiation dose was negligible. All input parameters showed highly estimated correlation with the radiation dose, approximated to 1.0, except for food intake in Wolsung power plant (partial correlation coefficient (PCC)=0.877). Consequently, we suggest that a prediction model or scenarios for food intake reflecting the current living trend and formal publications including details of chemical components in the critical nuclei from each plant are needed. Also, standardized domestic values of the parameters used in the calculation must replace the values of the existed or default-set imported factors via properly designed experiments and/or modelling such as transport of liquid discharge in waters nearby the plants, exposure tests on corps and plants so on. More detailed supportive information will be available in the conference