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Evaluation of the Size of Emergency Planning Zone for the Korean Standard Nuclear Power Plants  

Jeon, In-Young (Department of Nuclear Engineering, Hanyang University)
Lee, Jai-Ki (Department of Nuclear Engineering, Hanyang University)
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Journal of Radiation Protection and Research / v.28, no.3, 2003 , pp. 215-223 More about this Journal
Abstract
Against major release of radioactive material in nuclear power plant, Emergency Planning Zone(EPZ)s are typically established around nuclear power plants to effectively perform the public protective measures. The domestic methodology to determine the size of the EPZ is similar to that of Japan established in 1980, where calculations were based on the conservative accident source term. The objective of this study is to re-evaluate the validity of established EPZ, the area within the radius of $8{\sim}10km$ around domestic nuclear power plants, using the source terms covering full spectrum of accidents obtained from PSA study of ULJIN 3&4. To evaluate the risks of health effects, the computer code MACCS2(MELCOR Accident Consequence Code System2) was used. The result shows that the existing EPZ can reduce the probability of early fatality adequately for most of the source term categories(STCs) except for STC-14 and STC-19. In case of STC-14 and 19, the evacuation distance of 16km and 13km, respectively, are required. These distances can be reduced by improving emergency preparedness since the sensitivity studies for the public protective actions show that the magnitude of early fatality is largely affected by the time delays in notification and evacuation.
Keywords
accident; emergency; evacuation; EPZ; fatality; MACCS;
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