DETERMINATION OF POTENTIAL
AREAS OF INFLUENCE ON THE ROMANIAN TERRITORY OF UKRAINIAN NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS
IN THE CONTEXT OF THE CRISIS GENERATED BY THE RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN CONFLICT
Alexandru O.
PAVELESCU[1],
Valentin T. ACASANDREI[2],
Bogdan I. VAMANU[3], Dan
V. VAMANU[4], Mărgărit PAVELESCU[5]
Abstract.
In the context of the crisis
generated by the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, radiological situation forecasts
were made within the National Institute of Research and Development for Physics
and Nuclear Engineering "Horia Hulubei"
(IFIN-HH) for all nuclear power plants in Ukraine. Therefore, the resident
decision support software systems for radiological and nuclear emergencies were
used, with the main purpose of identifying potential areas of influence on the
territory of Romania generated by Ukrainian power plants, as consequence of
military actions. In the absence of pertinent and confirmed information, two
hypothetical scenarios were considered by which the radioactive material could
be dispersed into the atmosphere, for which appropriate accident source terms
were built, using methods validated and approved by the international
organizations in the field. The monitoring of the radiological situation of the
Ukrainian nuclear power plants was carried out over a period of several months
starting from the first day of the conflict outbreak. In the paper are
presented comparative results obtained with two software systems for a
representative case at the Zaporozhe Nuclear Power Plant, the largest nuclear
power plant in Europe, situated in the center of several disputes.
Keywords:
Decision-making support systems; Situation forecasts; Potential areas of
radiological risk; Total effective dose equivalent (TEDE)
DOI https:/ doi.org/10.56082/annalsarsciphyschem.2023.1.26
[1] 1PhD, Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Horia Hulubei
National Institute for R&D in Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH),
Reactorului Str. No.30, PO-Box: MG-75126, Bucharest-Magurele, Romania (e-mail:
alexandru.pavelescu@nipne.ro).
[2] PhD, Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Horia Hulubei
National Institute for R&D in Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH),
Reactorului Str. No.30, PO-Box: MG-75126, Bucharest-Magurele, Romania (e-mail:
tacasan@nipne.ro).
[3] PhD, Department of
Life and Environmental Sciences. Horia Hulubei National Institute for R&D
in Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH), Reactorului Str. No.30, PO-Box:
MG-75126, Bucharest-Magurele, Romania, (e-mail: bvamanu@nipne.ro).
[4] PhD, Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Horia Hulubei
National Institute for R&D in Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH), Reactorului
Str. No.30, PO-Box: MG-75126, Bucharest-Magurele, Romania, (e-mail: dvamanu@yahoo.com).
[5] PhD, Chairman of Physics Section, Academy of Romanian Scientists
(AOSR), Ilfov Street, No. 3, Sector 1, Bucharest, Romania (e-mail:
mpavelescu2002@yahoo.com).