Human radiation dose assessment of the ACP experimentation

The Advanced spent fuel Conditioning Process (ACP) is under development for the effective management of spent fuels which have been generated in nuclear plants. The ACP needs a hot cell where most of the operations will be performed. To give priority to environmental safety, radiation dose evaluation for the radioactive nuclides was preliminarily performed with the basic concept design report, the meteorological data and the recent site specific data. According to the production and release rate of the nuclides, dose evaluations for residents around the facility were performed. Evaluation results compared with the regulation limits presented a very good safety level, but the elimination efficiency for several important nuclides has to be highly maintained. (author)