Diffusion of Radioactive Materials in the Atmosphere
Abstract
Problem statement: The dispersion of radioactive materials in the environment related to escaping of noble gases, halogens and aerosols of non-volatile radioactive materials, from the reactor containment during normal operations, or in the event of a sever reactor accident. Approach: radionuclide dispersion in the environment is demonstrated by mathematical tools which are the partial differential equations, mainly the diffusion equation. A mathematical model to calculate the concentration of nuclear pollutants (radioactivity) with certain boundary conditions is constructed. Results: Solving the mathematical model and using some approximations lead to a distribution represents a model for plume of radioactive pollutants dispersed in two dimensions normal to the wind direction in which the plume moves as an entire non-dispersible unit. Conclusion: The obtained result theoretically are very close to those achieved experimentally.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/ajessp.2009.53.57
Copyright: © 2009 Abdul-Wali Ajlouni, Manal Abdelsalam, Hussam Al-Rabai’ah and Abdullah M.S. Ajlouni. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Keywords
- Radioactive materials
- diffusion equation
- mathematical modeling
- Jordan atmosphere