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BWXT will scout potential TRISO fuel production sites in Wyoming
BWX Technologies Inc. announced today that its Advanced Technologies subsidiary has signed a cooperation agreement with the state of Wyoming to evaluate locations and requirements for siting a potential new TRISO nuclear fuel fabrication facility in the state.
T. E. McKone, W. E. Kastenberg
Nuclear Technology | Volume 40 | Number 2 | September 1978 | Pages 170-184
Technical Paper | Tutorial Materials/Design Interaction in Nuclear System / Reactor Siting | doi.org/10.13182/NT78-A26713
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A method has been developed for determining doses to the public resulting from releases of tritium as tritiated water vapor or as tritiated lithium compounds. This method has been included in a computer model. This model uses the Gaussian dispersion method to predict distribution of tritium species in the downwind environment. Movement of tritium into biological systems is determined by treating these systems as a series of interacting water compartments. Dispersion and uptake calculations are applied to two sample sites to predict health effects. Consequences predicted by the model are linear and can be scaled to any release quantity. For a continuous release of tritium at a rate of 10 Ci/day, the calculated dose would be 8 mrem/yr at the site boundary, with a dose commitment of 10 to 100 man-rem/yr within an 80-km radius. For an instantaneous release of 108 Ci, the calculated dose would be as high as 2200 rem at the site boundary, contributing a population dose of 0.6 to 2.6 X 106 manrem within 80 km.