Published June 1986
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Journal article
Skyshine radiation from a pressurized water reactor containment dome
Description
The radiation dose rates resulting from airborne activities inside a postaccident pressurized water reactor containment are calculated by a discrete ordinates/Monte Carlo combined method. The calculated total dose rates and the skyshine component are presented as a function of distance from the containment at three different elevations for various gamma-ray source energies. The one-dimensional [ANISN code] is used to approximate the skyshine dose rates from the hemisphere dome, and the results are compared favorably to more rigorous results calculated by a three-dimensional Monte Carlo code
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Nucl. Technol.
- Journal Volume
- 73
- Journal Issue
- 3
- Series
- Nucl. Technol.
- Journal Page Range
- 286-295
- ISSN
- 0029-5450
- CODEN
- NUTYB
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 18013571
- Subject category
- S61: RADIATION PROTECTION AND DOSIMETRY; S54: ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
- Descriptors DEI
- A CODES; COMPUTER CALCULATIONS; CONTAINMENT; DISCRETE ORDINATE METHOD; DISTANCE; DOSE RATES; GAMMA DOSIMETRY; GAMMA RADIATION; LOSS OF COOLANT; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PWR TYPE REACTORS; RADIATION DOSES
- Descriptors DEC
- ACCIDENTS; COMPUTER CODES; DOSIMETRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS; IONIZING RADIATIONS; POWER REACTORS; RADIATIONS; REACTOR ACCIDENTS; REACTORS; THERMAL REACTORS; WATER COOLED REACTORS; WATER MODERATED REACTORS