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Nuclear Fuel in a Reactor Accident
Science, 2012Mechanics of a Meltdown For all the potential hazards presented by nuclear power plants, there have been very few incidents that have caused human or environmental harm. However, those that have happened have often had disastrous consequences, for example, the accidents at Chernobyl in Ukraine and, just last year, at Fukushima ...
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Structure Shielding in Reactor Accidents
Health Physics, 1977AbstractRadiation shielding provided by transportation vehicles and structures typical of where people live and work were estimated for cloud and fallout gamma-ray sources resulting from a hypothetical reactor accident.
Z G, Burson, A E, Profio
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Reactor accidents in perspective
The British Journal of Radiology, 1987When uranium fuel undergoes fission in a nuclear reactor, the heavy uranium nucleus divides into two non-equal parts called “fission products”. These fission products are formed with considerable kinetic energy and loose this energy by collision (slowing down) with other uranium atoms in the fuel lattice.
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JAMA, 1987
In a reactor accident with release of radioactivity, the major potential public health risks are likely to result from radioiodines, particularly iodine 131, which can be readily volatilized and dispersed. They are rapidly absorbed and concentrated by the thyroid, which could result in substantial thyroidal radiation.
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In a reactor accident with release of radioactivity, the major potential public health risks are likely to result from radioiodines, particularly iodine 131, which can be readily volatilized and dispersed. They are rapidly absorbed and concentrated by the thyroid, which could result in substantial thyroidal radiation.
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Emergency Reference Levels for Reactor Accidents
Health Physics, 1976AbstractApplication of the data in the Medical Research Council (I975) report on “Criteria for Controlling Radiation Doses to the Public after Accidental Release of Radioactive Material” to the circumstances of the Windscale reactor accident, confirms the views held at the time of the accident ...
K F, Baverstock, J, Vennart
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2015
Since the nuclear reactors based on the fission reaction are getting to be more economically competitive, with other type of electrical power plants such as gas or fossil fuel based. However, there appears to be nearly unlimited supply of fission product fuel, providing the new generation (i.e., GEN IV) concepts are developing over the near term, as a ...
Bahman Zohuri, Nima Fathi
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Since the nuclear reactors based on the fission reaction are getting to be more economically competitive, with other type of electrical power plants such as gas or fossil fuel based. However, there appears to be nearly unlimited supply of fission product fuel, providing the new generation (i.e., GEN IV) concepts are developing over the near term, as a ...
Bahman Zohuri, Nima Fathi
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1991
Two aspects of nuclear power loom large in virtually any public discussion of this technology: accidents and waste disposal. These very emotional issues have generated a great deal of rhetoric and misinformation. Because of their prominence, I have devoted an entire chapter to each subject.
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Two aspects of nuclear power loom large in virtually any public discussion of this technology: accidents and waste disposal. These very emotional issues have generated a great deal of rhetoric and misinformation. Because of their prominence, I have devoted an entire chapter to each subject.
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