Oceanic diffusion of a severe accidental radionuclide release from a subsea nuclear power plant

S.M. Lainoff and W. Nachbar

Energy, 1977, vol. 2, issue 2, 179-188

Abstract: Seabed siting of nuclear power plants could reduce significantly the safety problem posed by the severest accident, core melt followed by containment breach, in which a considerable portion of the radionuclide inventory is rapidly released to the environment. At 80 fathoms depth, in addition to a possible sizeable reduction of accident probabilities, the accident consequences to human life are likely to be greatly reduced because the most deadly components of the radioactive cloud from a land-based site will be dissolved for the seabed site. The present paper deals specifically with the oceanic diffusion of dissolved radionuclides following a severe accident (the specifications for the reference accident PWR-2 of WASH-1400 are taken) at a site chosen off the coast of San Diego, California.

Date: 1977
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DOI: 10.1016/0360-5442(77)90044-5

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