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D. O. Campbell, A. P. Malinauskas, W. R. Stratton
Nuclear Technology | Volume 53 | Number 2 | May 1981 | Pages 111-119
Technical Paper | Realistic Estimates of the Consequences of Nuclear Accident / Nuclear Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT81-A32615
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It is commonly assumed that the chemical form of fission product iodine that escapes from the core of a light water reactor under accident conditions is the elemental form. Experimental evidence is presented that indicates that this assumption is incorrect; instead, a metal iodide (probably cesium iodide) is the chemical form that escapes from the fuel. Moreover, since transport through the primary system necessarily occurs under chemically reducing conditions, a change in valence of the iodine is not possible until the oxidizing conditions characteristic of reactor containment buildings are encountered. However, it is also demonstrated that elemental iodine cannot be a dominant form if, as occurred at the Three Mile Island reactor, the iodide contacts water and is transported into the containment building in aqueous solution.