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http://dx.doi.org/10.7733/jnfcwt.2017.15.4.381

Preliminary Assessment of Radiological Impact on the Domestic Railroad Transport of High Level Radioactive Waste  

Seo, Myunghwan (Korea Radioactive Waste Agency (KORAD))
Dho, Ho-Seog (Korea Radioactive Waste Agency (KORAD))
Hong, Sung-Wook (Korea Radioactive Waste Agency (KORAD))
Park, Jin Beak (Korea Radioactive Waste Agency (KORAD))
Publication Information
Journal of Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Waste Technology(JNFCWT) / v.15, no.4, 2017 , pp. 381-390 More about this Journal
Abstract
In Korea, commercial nuclear power plants and research reactors have on-site storage systems for the spent nuclear fuel, but it is difficult to expand the facilities used for the storage systems. If decommissioning of nuclear power plants starts, an amount of high level radioactive waste will be generated. In this study, a radiological impact assessment of the railroad transport of high level radioactive waste was carried out considering radiation workers and the public, using the developed transport container as the transport package. The dose rates for workers and the public during the transport period were estimated, considering anticipated transport scenarios, and the results compared with the regulatory limit. A sensitivity analysis was also carried out by considering the different release ratios of the radioactive materials in the high level radioactive waste, and different distances between the transport container and workers during loading and unloading phases and while attaching another freight car. For all the anticipated transport scenarios, the radiological impacts for workers and the public met the regulatory limits.
Keywords
High level radioactive waste (HLW); RADTRAN; Railroad transport; Spent nuclear fuel;
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