Atmospheric dispersion modeling and radiological environmental impact assessment for normal operation of a proposed pressurized water reactor in the eastern …

I Alrammah, IMM Saeed, MHA Mhareb… - Progress in Nuclear …, 2022 - Elsevier
As a licensing requirement, constructing a new nuclear power plant (NPP) requires
performing a radiological environmental impact assessment (REIA) which includes the study …

Inversion of 137Cs emissions following the fukushima accident with adaptive release recovery for temporal absences of observations

S Fang, X Dong, S Zhuang, Z Tian, Y Zhao, Y Liu… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Temporal absences in observation records lead to release losses during the source term
inversions of atmospheric radionuclide emissions. Consequently, objectively-estimated …

Objective inversion of the continuous atmospheric 137Cs release following the Fukushima accident

X Dong, S Fang, S Zhuang, Y Xu, Y Zhao… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2023 - Elsevier
Eleven years after the Fukushima accident, independent objective estimates of the
atmospheric 137 Cs release still suffer from discontinuities such as negative release terms …

Model behavior regarding in-and below-cloud 137Cs wet scavenging following the Fukushima accident using 1-km-resolution meteorological field data

S Zhuang, S Fang, D Goto, X Dong, Y Xu… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Wet deposition remains an important source of uncertainty in modeling of the atmospheric
transport of 137 Cs following the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident. Its …

[HTML][HTML] Atmospheric dispersion of chemical, biological, and radiological hazardous pollutants: Informing risk assessment for public safety

X Zhang, J Wang - Journal of Safety Science and Resilience, 2022 - Elsevier
Modern society is confronted with emerging threats from chemical, biological, and
radiological (CBR) hazardous substances, which are intensively utilized in the chemical …

Wet scavenging of multi-mode 137Cs aerosols following the Fukushima accident: Size-resolved microphysics modeling with observed diameters

S Zhuang, S Fang, Y Xu, D Goto, X Dong - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Wet scavenging was critical in the atmospheric transport of 137 Cs aerosols following the
Fukushima accident. The aerosol size diversity and related microphysical processes …

The impact of sampling scale: A comparison of methods for estimating external contaminant exposure in free-ranging wildlife

HL Bontrager, TG Hinton, K Okuda… - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
The impacts of contaminants on wildlife are dose dependent, and thus being able to track or
predict exposure following contamination events is important for monitoring ecosystem …

Local atmospheric transport behaviors of representative radionuclides during the Fukushima accident: A 200-m-resolution cross-scale study from site to 20 km

S Zhuang, S Fang, X Dong, Y Xu, L Sheng… - Journal of Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Modeling of local atmospheric radionuclide transport is essential for nuclear emergency
response. However, very few studies of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant …

Source term inversion of nuclear accident based on deep feedforward neural network

W Cui, B Cao, Q Fan, J Fan, Y Chen - Annals of Nuclear Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Source term estimation based on environmental monitoring data is a key method for
obtaining source information, which is required by the emergency response system. This …

Advanced simulation techniques for the transport of routine atmospheric discharges using the JRODOS system

A Selivanova, J Hůlka, L Kotík, P Kuča… - Progress in Nuclear …, 2023 - Elsevier
This work is dedicated to a study of routine atmospheric discharges from the Dukovany
Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), Czechia. Radionuclide discharges and their transport in the …