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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.
Raymond P. Siu
Nuclear Technology | Volume 93 | Number 3 | March 1991 | Pages 350-356
Technical Paper | Nuclear Reactor Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT91-A34528
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Control room habitability during severe accidents is assessed. The potential levels of radiation hazards to control room personnel are evaluated in terms of magnitude and occurrence probability. The cumulative probability distributions of control room doses, and the expected values for the probabilities of exceeding appropriate dose limits, are determined. The control room types analyzed include designs with filtered local intakes only, filtered recirculation only, filtered local intakes with recirculation, and filtered dual remote intakes with recirculation.