Environmental Evaluation on Atmosphere Radioactive Pollution of Uranium Mine Shaft Ventilation Exhausts

Author

Xie, Dong ; Liu, Zehua ; Xiong, Jun ; Liu, Jianxiang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Building Environ. & Thermal Eng., Univ. of South China, Hengyang, China

fYear

2012

Firstpage

294

Lastpage

296

Abstract

A study on calculation and evaluation on atmosphere radioactive pollution of uranium mine well ventilation exhaust gas is presented in this paper. Neutral atmosphere conditions were taken into consideration. Nuclear industry standards on safety protection distance were analyzed and compared with calculation results. The calculation results show that 500 m distance of radiation safety protection is appropriate, and which is lower than 1000 m distance listed on previous standards. In addition, personal dose at 500m can also meet the requirements of public personal dose limit. According to calculation results, specific pollution control methods on uranium mining and metallurgy area were put forward to reduce the harm and pollution to environment and residents.

Keywords

air pollution control; exhaust systems; mining industry; safety; shafts; standards; uranium; ventilation; atmosphere radioactive pollution; distance 1000 m; distance 500 m; environmental evaluation; neutral atmosphere condition; nuclear industry standard; pollution control method; public personal dose limit; radiation safety protection; safety protection distance; uranium metallurgy; uranium mine shaft; uranium mining; ventilation exhaust gas; Atmosphere; Fuel processing industries; Monitoring; Safety; Standards; Ventilation; atmosphere pollution; control methods; environmental evaluation; radiation protection;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Distributed Control and Intelligent Environmental Monitoring (CDCIEM), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hunan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0458-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CDCIEM.2012.76

Filename

6178572