Modelling the long-term consequences of a hypothetical dispersal of radioactivity in an urban area including remediation alternatives

The economics of nuclear decontamination: assessing policy options for the management of land around Fukushima dai-ichi

“…by removal and safe storage of soil) an excess dose of y to a level of s is c(y,s). The evidence on the functional form of c is scanty (Brown et al, 1996, Thiessen et al, 2009). However, in the wake of the Fukushima accident, the Japanese government has organized a number of decontamination pilot projects in different locations and environments (Japan Atomic Energy Agency, 2012).…”

Data assimilation approaches in the EURANOS project

“…IAMM, which has already been integrated into RODOS and ARGOS, operates in two modes (Kaiser and Pröhl, 2007) either (a) based alone on measurements of the external gamma dose rate using geostatistical interpolation or (b) in combination with model predictions using data assimilation. In a hypothetical scenario for the detonation of a radioactive dispersion device IAMM has been successfully applied with geo-statistical interpolation (Thiessen et al, 2009).…”

Challenges for Physics-Based Models of a Radionuclide Dispersal Device

“…The threat of deliberate dispersal of radioactive materials in an urban environment has received considerable attention in the wake of the September 11 attacks in 2001 [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]. A radiological dispersal device (RDD) is one of many conceivable ways in which radioactive material could be maliciously dispersed and exposed to the general public [6].…”

“…A radiological dispersal device (RDD) is one of many conceivable ways in which radioactive material could be maliciously dispersed and exposed to the general public [6]. An explosive RDD, colloquially referred to as a "dirty bomb", spreads radioactive material through detonation of a chemical explosive charge [8].…”

“…Various aspects of an RDD attack have been already studied both computationally [5,6,[11][12][13] and experimentally [14][15][16]. As pointed out by Magill et al [8], to estimate the consequences of an RDD attack, "one needs to quantify the type of radioactive material (the source term) and to model the dispersion under the meteorological conditions at the time of the detonation".…”