Economical methodology for assessing the radiological impact of hypothetical reactor accidents

In assessing the consequences of a release of radioactivity to the atmosphere, it is indicated that the computation of both the doses delivered to exposed persons and the consequences of those doses can be separated from the computation of the radioactivity dispersal. Such a separation offers useful economics in practical calculations in addition to its conceptual advantages. For a postulated radioactivity release representative of a serious reactor accident, detailed illustrative predictions of models are presented, describing the doses borne by body tissues, and the latent consequences of those doses, without resorting to a specific description of atmospheric dispersal