Open AccessCOMBINED CALCULATION OF RADIATION FROM LARGE-SIZED GROUND RW STORAGE FACILITIES ON THE BASIS OF MONTE CARLO METHOD
Author(s) -
В.Г. Рудычев,
N. A. Azarenkov,
І. О. Гірка,
D.V. Rudychev,
Y.V. Rudychev
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
problems of atomic science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.216
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1562-6016
pISSN - 1682-9344
DOI - 10.46813/2019-123-069
Subject(s) - electromagnetic shielding , monte carlo method , radiation , radiation protection , container (type theory) , radiation shielding , nuclear engineering , physics , materials science , optics , nuclear physics , engineering , mathematics , statistics , quantum mechanics , composite material
A technique to reduce the dose rates, produced by large-sized ground-based radiation sources with dozens of radiating elements of the same geometry arranged along the perimeter, is developed. The radiating elements represent the concrete rectangular casks into which cylindrical barrels filled with compacted RW are loaded. The spatial distribution of the radiation around the cask is calculated by the Monte Carlo method. The radiation is assumed to be produced by the definite radionuclides of RW. Shielding by neighboring containers and the presence of an additional biological shielding are taken into account. Different options of the container arrangement are considered.