Assessment of routine atmospheric discharges from the Sellafield nuclear installation—Cumbria UK

The Met Officeʹs long-range dispersion model, the Nuclear Accident Model (NAME), has been used to assess the impact of routine atmospheric radioactive discharges from the Sellafield nuclear installation on the Cumbrian coast of England (54° 25.0′ 3° 30.2′ W). The model has produced values of scaling factors for concentrations and depositions over northwest Europe. Whilst the dispersion model was designed and has been used extensively in the past for examining specific incidents of a nuclear nature, this is the first time the NAME model has been used to provide a detailed climatological impact assessment for a nuclear installation.