Re: fission product source terms.....

[David Matchick <dmatch@prolog.net>]

Dave,



NUREG-1465, "Accident Source Terms for Light-Water Nuclear Power

Plants," is the most recent design basis work on reactor accident source

terms. The methodology has been programed into the RADTRAD computer code

which is available from RSICC, the Radiation Safety Information

Computational Center. As for ORIGEN, I attended a shielding course put

on by Georgia Tech a number of years ago which included a segment on

ORIGEN2. Unfortunately, I do not know if the course is still available.



Hope this helps and regards,



David Matchick









 

> I am searching for a good reference on fission product source terms

> for reactor accident scenarios.  Specifically I'm looking  at nuclide

> source terms for fission product releases that drive the off-site

> exposure, ie...noble gasses and halogens.  I'm being a bit lazy in not

> wanting to go thru the calculations for all of the possibilities, I

> also am a firm believer in not 're-inventing the wheel'.  I know that

> using a code like ORIGEN is the way to go but I'm not very proficient

> in using it.

> 

> Any help would be appreciated...

> 

> I'd also be very interested in a class on the ORIGEN code if anyone

> knows of one they'd recommend.

> 

> Regards,

> 

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