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http://dx.doi.org/10.7733/jnfcwt.2016.14.3.279

Radiological Impact Assessment for the Domestic On-road Transportation of Radioactive Isotope Wastes  

Seo, Myunghwan (Korea Radioactive Waste Agency, Technology Institute)
Hong, Sung-Wook (Korea Radioactive Waste Agency, Technology Institute)
Park, Jin Beak (Korea Radioactive Waste Agency, Technology Institute)
Publication Information
Journal of Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Waste Technology(JNFCWT) / v.14, no.3, 2016 , pp. 279-287 More about this Journal
Abstract
Korea Radioactive Waste Agency (KORAD) began to operate the low and intermediate level radioactive waste disposal facility in Gyeongju and to transport the radioactive waste containing radioactive isotopes from Daejeon to the disposal facility for the first time at 2015. For this radioactive waste transportation, in this study, radiological impact assessment is carried out for workers and public. The dose rate to workers and public during the transportation is estimated with consideration of the transportation scenarios and is compared with the Korean regulatory limit. The sensitivity analysis is carried out by considering both the variation of release ratios of the radioactive isotopes from the waste and the variation of the distances between the radioactive waste drum and worker during loading and unloading of radioactive waste. As for all the transportation scenarios, radiological impacts for workers and public have met the regulatory limits.
Keywords
Radioactive Isotopes (RI); RADTRAN; Radioactive waste; On-road transport; LILW Disposal facility;
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