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No impact from Savannah River radioactive wasps
The news is abuzz with recent news stories about four radioactive wasp nests found at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina. The site has been undergoing cleanup operations since the 1990s related to the production of plutonium and tritium for defense purposes during the Cold War. Cleanup activities are expected to continue into the 2060s.
A. K. Ahluwalia, A. M. C. Chan
Nuclear Technology | Volume 93 | Number 2 | February 1991 | Pages 252-259
Technical Note | Nuclear Reactor Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT91-A34509
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A newly developed computer code, FONS-AERO, is used to simulate the flow parameters of a carrier gas and an aerosol in an idealized vented containment during a blowdown. The code is a transient, multidimensional turbulent flow code that can handle gas and aerosol flows simultaneously under various flow situations. Complicated boundary conditions can also be readily incorporated. Some initial results of aerosol distribution in the containment and sensitivity to aerosol types are presented.