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Shielding of Ionizing Radiation in Nuclear Power Reactor Environments (A Technical Memorandum)
Author(s) -
Bahman Zohuri,
Seyed Kamal Mousavi Balgehshiri,
Ali Zamani Paydar
Publication year - 2022
Language(s) - English
DOI - 10.47363/jmsmr/2022(3)128
Subject(s) - nuclear power , nuclear power plant , nuclear engineering , environmental science , forensic engineering , engineering , nuclear physics , physics
Since release of movie known as “China Syndrome” in early march of 1979, and was about story of a reporter who finds what appears to be a cover-up of safety hazards at a Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), and a hypothetical sequence of events following the meltdown of a nuclear reactor, in which the core melts through its containment structure and deep into the earth causing all kind of nuclear radiation. Nuclear accidents are one of the greatest debates that in several decades ago has risen around the world in past until now, we encountered with the worst nuclear accident in Three Mile Island (TMI) in 28 March of 1979, which was less than two weeks after release of the movie, which start raising the concern of radiation leak to environment from TMI-2 reactor. This start putting future of nuclear power industry driven energy producing electricity, into serious doubt and the matter become worst, when on 26 April 1986 the Chernobyl nuclear disaster occurred at the No. 4 reactor of this power plant and released huge amount of radiation into surrounding environment very dangerously that still exists today. We almost were about forgetting about these incidents by putting them in backburner of our mind, then on 11 March 2011 a huge tsunami hits cost of Fukushima, Japan, where Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was residing and consequently caused its accident and it was the most severe nuclear accident in the world so far to this point that is still consider that was this event another China Syndrome? Radiations released from these accidents internally and externally to its environment is serious matter and needs serious attention by scientist, engineers and creators of these reactor and what could be done to shield them, when come to ionizing radiation, which is subject of this Technical Memorandum (TM)

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