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http://dx.doi.org/10.7733/jnfcwt.2020.18.2(E).317

The Assessment of Exposure Dose of Radiation Workers for Decommissioning Waste in the Radioactive Waste Inspection Building of Low and Intermediate-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Facility  

Kim, Rin-Ah (Korea Radioactive Waste Agency)
Dho, Ho-Seog (Korea Radioactive Waste Agency)
Kim, Tae-Man (Korea Radioactive Waste Agency)
Cho, Chun-Hyung (Korea Radioactive Waste Agency)
Publication Information
Journal of Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Waste Technology(JNFCWT) / v.18, no.2_spc, 2020 , pp. 317-325 More about this Journal
Abstract
The Korea Radioactive Waste Agency plans to expand the storage capacity of radioactive waste by constructing a radioactive waste inspecting building to solve the problem of the lack of inspection space and drum-handling space in the radioactive waste receipt and storage building for the first-stage disposal facility. In this study, the exposure doses of radiation workers that handle new disposal containers for decommissioning waste in the storage areas of the radioactive waste inspecting building were calculated using the Monte Carlo N-particle transport code. The annual collective dose was calculated as a total of 84.8 man-mSv for 304 new disposal containers and an estimated annual 306 working hours for the radiation work. When the 304 new disposal containers (small/medium type) were stored in the storage areas, it was found that 25 radiation workers should be involved in acceptance/disposal inspection, and the estimated exposure dose per worker was calculated as an average annual value of 3.39 mSv. When the radiation workers handle the small containers in high-radiation dose areas, the small containers should be shielded further by increasing the concrete liner thickness to improve the work efficiency and radiation safety of the radiation workers. The results of this study will be useful in establishing the optimal radiation working conditions for radiation workers using the source term and characteristics of decommissioning waste based on actual measurements.
Keywords
Low and intermediate-level radioactive waste; Decommissioning waste; Package/disposal container; Radioactive waste inspecting building; Radiation worker; Exposure dose;
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