Study on the Effect of Containment Performance on Iodine Source Term

In this paper, the iodine source term is studied with the containment performance in normal, isolation, and emergency state of containment. For this study, a MATLAB computer-based program is developed, which simulates the iodine source term with time. The environmental iodine source term is determined with time normal, isolation and emergency state of containment. With the operation of Engineering Safety Features ESFs the effect on the iodine source term has been observed. From the results, it is observed that the iodine is strongly dependent on the exhaust rate and significantly reduced with ESFs operation.