Estimating radioactive material release risks in transport accidents

Author

Xie, Chaoyang ; Luo, Jingrun ; Guo, Lilun

Author_Institution

Inst. of Struct. Mech., China Acad. of Eng. Phys., Mianyang, China

fYear

2011

fDate

17-19 June 2011

Firstpage

994

Lastpage

997

Abstract

The risk assessment model of radioactive material release for transport accident is discussed in this paper. Based on the statistical data of transport accident and the classification of the accident severity, the quantitative assessment method of radioactive materials release rate in transport accidents is developed. Then, the consequence of the radioactive material release accident is predicted by Gauss Model atmospheric dispersion for fire accident especially. Eventually, one example is implemented with the method and the statistical accident data. The results show that the assessment method could obtain a preliminary quantitative estimate for radioactive material release accident in transport.

Keywords

nuclear criticality safety; nuclear materials transportation; risk management; Gauss model atmospheric dispersion; accident severity; quantitative assessment method; radioactive material; risk assessment model; statistical accident data; transport accidents; Accidents; Atmospheric modeling; Containers; Fires; Radioactive materials; Transportation; accident severity; radioacitve materials; risk estimate; transport accident;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Quality, Reliability, Risk, Maintenance, and Safety Engineering (ICQR2MSE), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Xi´an

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1229-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICQR2MSE.2011.5976770

Filename

5976770