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NuScale Energy Exploration Center opens at George Mason University
NuScale Power Corporation has opened another Energy Exploration (E2) Center—this one at George Mason University in Arlington, Va. Just last month, a NuScale E2 Center opened at South Carolina State University in Orangeburg, S.C. The newest E2 at George Mason is the company’s 11th center.
Karl Heinemann, Ralf Hille, Kurt Jürgen Vogt
Nuclear Technology | Volume 61 | Number 1 | April 1983 | Pages 17-24
Technical Paper | Nuclear Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT83-A33139
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The initiation of emergency measures to protect the public after a nuclear accident must be based on immediate measurements of external doses and inhalation doses in inhabited areas. The external radiation exposure from the plume and soil can be determined with dose rate meters. Due to the different biological effects of the individual nuclides, the detection of the inhalation doses calls for nuclide analysis of the air concentration. Radiation exposure calculations of light-water and high-temperature reactors and other nuclear installations proved that only a few nuclides cause the main contribution to the inhalation dose. In the case of reactors, the critical nuclide is 131I. After examining accidents in other nuclear facilities, different nuclides, e.g., strontium and plutonium, may become relevant.