Published December 1987 | Version v1
Journal article

Population dose assessment for radiation emergency in complex terrain

  • 1. Korea Advanced Energy Research Inst., Daeduk (Republic of Korea)

Description

Gaussian plume model is used to assess environmental dose for abnormal radioactive release in nuclear facility. But there has a problem to use it for complex terrain. In this report, MATTEW and WINDO4 codes which had been verified were used to calculate wind field in the complex terrain. Under the base of these codes principle. Wind fields were obtained from the calculation of the finite difference approximation for advection-diffusion equations which satisfy the mass-conservative law. Particle concentrations and external doses were calculated by using PIC model which approximate the particle to radioactive cloud, and atmospheric diffusion of the particles from the random walk method. The results show that the adjusted wind fields and the distributions of the exposure dose vary with the topography of the complex terrain. (Author)

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of the Korean Association for Radiation Protection
Journal Volume
12
Journal Issue
2
Series
J. Korean Assoc. Radiat. Prot.
Journal Page Range
28-36
CODEN
BBHCD

INIS

Country of Publication
Korea, Republic of
Country of Input or Organization
Korea, Republic of
INIS RN
20018646
Subject category
S61: RADIATION PROTECTION AND DOSIMETRY;
Descriptors DEI
COMPUTER CODES; M CODES; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; RADIATION DOSES; W CODES