RADIOLOGICAL ASSESSMENTS FOR THE NATIONAL-IGNITION-FACILITY

Authors
Citation
Kj. Hong et Ma. Lazaro, RADIOLOGICAL ASSESSMENTS FOR THE NATIONAL-IGNITION-FACILITY, Fusion technology, 30(3), 1996, pp. 1511-1515
Citations number
5
Categorie Soggetti
Nuclear Sciences & Tecnology
Journal title
ISSN journal
07481896
Volume
30
Issue
3
Year of publication
1996
Part
2B
Pages
1511 - 1515
Database
ISI
SICI code
0748-1896(1996)30:3<1511:RAFTN>2.0.ZU;2-J
Abstract
The potential radiological impacts of the National Ignition Facility ( NIF), a proposed facility for fusion ignition and high-energy density experiments, were assessed for five candidate sites to assist in site selection. The GENII computer program was used to model releases of ra dionuclides during normal NIF operations and a postulated accident and to calculate radiation doses to the public. Health risks were estimat ed by converting the estimated doses into health effects using a stand ard cancer fatality risk factor. The greatest calculated radiation dos e was less than one thousandth of a percent of the dose received from natural background radiation; no cancer fatalities would be expected t o occur in the public as the result of normal NIF operations. The high est dose conservatively estimated to result from a postulated accident could lead to a one in one million risk of cancer.