Radiological Impact Assessment of Acute Tritium Releases in Environment—A Soil Dynamic Model

Abstract

Radiological and environmental impact assessment models are important tools that support nuclear safety. The present study summarizes the upgrades of a research-grade model (CROPTRIT) with an emphasis on a soil submodel and the balance between air-to-plant and soil-to-plant pathways, together with the needs that must be accomplished by an operational model in order to be applied to nuclear facilities involving large tritium loads.

Keywords:

• Tritium modeling
• soil tritium dynamics
• operational model

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.

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Funding

This study was part of project EXPLORATORY IDEAS 191/2017 financed by the Romanian Authority for Scientific Research; PN 19060203 and PN 23210202 financed by the Romanian Ministry of Research and Innovation.