• Title of article

    AnalysisofradioactivityreleasesintheMEGAPIEreferenceaccidentOriginalResearchArticle

  • Author/Authors

    KonstantinMikityuk، نويسنده , , PaulCoddington، نويسنده , , FriedrichGr?schel، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2008
  • Pages
    7
  • From page
    1838
  • To page
    1844
  • Abstract
    AcomputermodelfortheMEGAwattPilotTargetExperiment(MEGAPIE)wasdeveloped,verifiedandappliedtotheanalysisofthereferenceaccident,resultingfromthehypotheticallossofaPb–Biinventoryandsubsequentcoolingdownofthetargetwithfreeconvectionoftheatmosphericair.Theradioactivityreleasescausedbyevaporationofactivationproductsfromthelead–bismuthfilmsonthesurfacesofthetargetinnerstructuresareestimated.Themaximumradioactivityreleaseswerefoundtobefromevaporationofthemercuryandpoloniumestimatedas7.0×1011and6.2×108Bq,respectively.Thermalconductivityandradiationheattransferthroughthegasgapswerefoundtobemoreimportantmechanismofthetargetcoolingdownthantheatmosphericairconvection.ThefinalconclusionmadeonthebasisoftheworkisthatMEGAPIEinthereferenceaccidentmeetsthe1mSvcriterion.
  • Journal title
    Nuclear Engineering and Design Eslah
  • Serial Year
    2008
  • Journal title
    Nuclear Engineering and Design Eslah
  • Record number

    895140

    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=10&DC=895140