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El Salvador: Looking to nuclear
In 2022, El Salvador’s leadership decided to expand its modest, mostly hydro- and geothermal-based electricity system, which is supported by expensive imported natural gas and diesel generation. They chose to use advanced nuclear reactors, preferably fueled by thorium-based fuels, to power their civilian efforts. The choice of thorium was made to inform the world that the reactor program was for civilian purposes only, and so they chose a fuel that was plentiful, easy to source and work with, and not a proliferation risk.
Yican Wu, Mengyun Cheng, Wen Wang, Jing Song, Shengpeng Yu, Pengcheng Long, Liqin Hu
Nuclear Technology | Volume 201 | Number 2 | February 2018 | Pages 155-164
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2017.1411717
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Dose conversion coefficients are important physical quantities in radiation dosimetry assessment and can be derived from Monte Carlo simulation based on human computational phantoms. In order to accurately evaluate the dose to a human body especially for a Chinese female, a precise whole-body Chinese female computational phantom named Rad-Human was constructed based on high-resolution digital color slice images of an adult female body. Rad-Human includes 46 tissues and organs with a minimum voxel size of 0.15 × 0.15 × 0.25 mm for head and neck and 0.15 × 0.15 × 0.5 mm for other regions, and it contains more than 28.8 billion voxels. Conversion coefficients and effective doses of external radiation, specific absorbed fractions, and S values of internal radiation for different energies for Rad-Human were calculated. The calculated dose conversion coefficients were reasonable comparing and analyzing the relationship between dose and organ characteristics with those values of the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) reference phantom. Based on the information and simulation results of Rad-Human, a set of more complete data of dose conversion coefficients in the radiation field was constructed for a Chinese adult female. Dose discrepancies that were observed were due to differences of body structures between the two phantoms. The differences of dose conversion coefficients between Rad-Human and the ICRP reference phantom demonstrate that Rad-Human can more accurately assess the exposure dose especially for a Chinese female.