PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT OF CONTINUOUS ATMOS PHERIC DISCHARGE FROM THE LOW RADIOACTIVE WASTE INCINERATOR

Abstract

 The concern of society for the quality of environment and the realization that all human activities
 have some environmental effects, has led to the development of predictive environmental impact assessment
 procedure. This procedure predicts probable environmental effects before the decision of construction, operation,
 and closure of any facility. The primary goal of this study is to preliminary assess the environmental impact
 of continuous operational mode of low radioactive waste incinerator. This assessment is intended to screen
 the steady-state near field radio-contaminant concentration profile in a plume immersion scenario. In this
 respect, simple analytical Gaussian model was developed and applied to predict the radio-contaminant
 concentration profile to support the preliminary assessment of worker exposure. The maximum radio
contaminant concentration was found to occur at the 6m and breathing levels for totally reflected radio
contaminant. The consideration of subjective uncertainty in wind speed and eddy diffusion coefficient
 indicates that workers will expose to the highest radio-contaminant concentration at the breathing level and
 there is 95% confidence that the value of this concentration will not exceed 1.6*10–2 Bq/m3 for each
 release unit