Development of the evaluation method for the mobile radioactive contaminants for assessing public exposure risk in accidental events during decommissioning of nuclear power station

Sasagawa, Tsuyoshi; Shimada, Taro; Takeda, Seiji

Proceedings of 31st International Conference Nuclear Energy for New Europe (NENE2022) (USB Flash Drive), 8 Pages, 2022/12

In the risk assessment of the decommissioning phase, the inventory of radioactivity accumulated in filters and other materials changes with the progress of dismantling work under normal conditions, and a method that can evaluate the public exposure dose during an accident in which these changes are taken into account is required. The inventories (the mobile radioactive contaminants) include filters in which radioactive dust dispersed by equipment cutting work has accumulated and combustible waste generated by decontamination work. In this study, we developed a method to evaluate the accumulation of mobile contaminants in filters by calculating the amount of dust transferred into the air during equipment cutting operations using a model that evaluates the volume of the cutting kerf width and the dispersion ratio. Furthermore, the amount of the mobile contaminants that accumulates in local filters and building filters for each equipment was evaluated using this method, taking into account differences in cutting methods (underwater or in air) and work processes, and the equipment and work processes that should be focused on during regulatory inspections were studied preliminarily. It was suggested that some equipment cut in air generate the same amount of the mobile contaminants compared to reactor internals with high radioactivity that are cut in underwater. This indicates that the mobile contaminant is one of the important indicators in nuclear regulatory inspections that influence the selection of inspection targets.