论文信息 - Special monitoring results for determination of radionuclide composition of Russian NPP atmospheric releases

Special monitoring results for determination of radionuclide composition of Russian NPP atmospheric releases

Abstract Measurements of activity concentrations of radionuclides in atmospheric releases were performed in 2017–2018 at vent stacks of seven Russian nuclear power plants. The selected instruments and research methods, with detection limits significantly lower than the existing detection limit of Russian NPPs routine control, allowed to reliably determine up to 26 radionuclides. Analysis of experimental data allows to determine the list of radionuclides for calculation the effective dose rates to public and the permissible annual discharge levels for each Russian NPP. Radiocarbon is determined as major contributor for the dose from the atmospheric releases of LWGR reactors – up to 98% for EGP-6 and RBMK-1000 (Smolensk NPP) reactors. For PWR reactors (VVER) radionuclides contribution to the annual dose from atmospheric releases is more complicated, but, in general, dose is formed by tritium, 14C and noble gases. The special monitoring results with ranking of measured radionuclides according to their contribution to the effective dose makes it possible to optimize the list of controlled radionuclides in airborne releases of Russian NPPs from 94 to 8–16 for different NPPs.

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