Re: Exercise Scenarios -Reply

[Jim Hardeman <Jim_Hardeman@mail.dnr.state.ga.us>]

Harold --

All this from one (1) single melted assembly??!! Sounds like
creative scenario writing (much akin to creative accounting) to
me!!

Jim Hardeman, Manager
Environmental Radiation Program
Environmental Protection Division
Georgia Department of Natural Resources
4244 International Parkway, Suite 114
Atlanta, GA 30354
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>>> Harold Reynolds <Harold.Reynolds@rfets.gov> 01/16/98
10:45 >>>
Having read all the postings about how impossible it is to
have dangerous doses at great distances from a fuel bundle
being lifted above water level, I recall a scenario we
considered several years ago.  A fuel bundle is lifted out of
the water and the crane fails.  The bundle then melts due to
decay heat releasing all the noble gasses and a large
percentage of the iodine and particulate fission products to
the building. This plume is then released to the atmosphere
via an unfiltered pathway with no partitioning factor (not likely I
agree) into extremely stable meteorlogical conditions.  The
doses as I recall were in the hundreds of rads/hour at 10s of
miles.

Harry Reynolds
303-96-2708
Harold.Reynolds@RFETS.gov