KRONIC: a computer program for calculating annual average external doses from chronic atmospheric releases of radionuclides

Abstract

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GENII: The Hanford Environmental Radiation Dosimetry Software System: Volume 1, Conceptual representation

“…calculate annual doses, dose commitments, or accumulated doses from acute or chronic releases of radioactive materials to air or water. essentially replicates that provided in the past by the computer codes KRONIC (Strenge and Watson 1973), SUBDOSA (Strenge, Watson, and Houston 1975), DACRIN (Houston, Strenge, and Watson 1974;Strenge 1975), FOOD and ARRRG , and PABLM (Napier, Kennedy, and Soldat 1980). Annual doses, dose tommitments, and accumulated doses can also be calculated from ' initial contamination of soil or surfaces, thus incorporating capabilities from PABLM and ONSITE/MAXI (Napier et al 1984;Kennedy et al 1986;Kennedy et al 1987).…”

“…The codes are based on existing Hanford models and codes, using updated formulations and transfer coefficients. Existing codes incorporated include DACRIN (Houston, Strenge, and Watson 1974;Strenge 1975), PABLM (Napier, Kennedy, and Soldat 1980), MAXI (Napier et al 1984), DITTY (Napier, Peloquin, and Strenge 1986), SUBDOSA (Strenge, Watson, and Houston 1975), KRONIC (Strenge and Watson 1973), and ISOSHLD (Engel, Greenborg, and Hendrickson 1966). A user-friendly, interactive, driver program was developed to consol idate a1 1 code input and output requirements.…”

Hanford Site National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) characterization. Revision 7

“…The core system of GENII can calculate annual 5.9 doses, dose commitments, or accumulated doses from acute or chronic releases of radioactive materials to air or water. These calculations were previously supplied by the computer codes KRONIC (Strenge and Watson 1973), SUBDOSA , DACRIN (Houston et al 1974;Strenge 1975), ARRRG (Soldat et al 1974), FOOD (Baker 1977;Baker et al 1976), and PABLM (Napier et al 1980). GENII also can calculate annual doses, dose commitments, and accumulated doses from initial contamination of soil or surfaces, thus incorporating capabilities from PABLM and ONSITEMAXI (Kennedy et al 1986(Kennedy et al , 1987Napier et al 1984).…”

Hanford Dose Overview Program: standardized methods and data for Hanford environmental dose calculations. Rev. 1

“…This program (Strenge and Watson 1973) is used to calculate air submersion doses from long-term releases to the atmosphere. The beta dose contribution is calculated using a semi-infinite cloud model because the range of beta particles in air is short compared to the dimensions of the plume.…”