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Thermal Index for the Assessment of the Impacted Area by the Thermal Discharge from Nuclear Power Plant in Korea  

Ro, Young-Jae (Dept. of Oceanography, Chungnam National University)
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The Sea:JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN SOCIETY OF OCEANOGRAPHY / v.12, no.1, 2007 , pp. 35-42 More about this Journal
Abstract
Thermal discharges from the nuclear power plants into neighboring Korean coastal waters have raised serious disputable arguments from the two parties of local fishermen and scientists involved since late 1970's. To meet the social demands and provide scientific and reasonable solutions, new set of standards have been established which will guide through measuring and processing the various variables and parameters in environmental and fishery impact assessment procedures for the thermal discharge from the nuclear power plants. These are made possible for the first time by the combined efforts by Korean Oceanography Society and Fishery Society. In this paper, Thermal Disharge Impact Index(TI) is proposed by the probability of the local temperatures exceeding critically to local fishery multiplied by the weighted sum of diverse environmental and ecological factors. The TI is essentially conceived to overcome the long-exising bad practices based on the particular excess temperature such as 1. The proposed TI based on the guideline principle proposed by the UNEP(2002) is expected to be practical, economic and self-adaptive. To prove the usefulness of the TI, it is highly recommended to conduct prototype experiments and exercises in a particular nuclear power plant site in the near future.
Keywords
Nuclear Power Plant; Thermal Discharge; Environmental Assessment; UNEP; Thermal Disharge Impact Index; Excess Temperature;
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