FRAMES-2.0 Software System: Linking to the Groundwater Modeling System (GMS) RT3D and MT3DMS Models

Whelan, Gene ; Castleton, Karl J. ; Pelton, Mitch A.

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (U.S.)

关键词: Safety Analysis;    99 General And Miscellaneous//Mathematics, Computing, And Information Science;    Ground Water;    Radionuclide Migration;    Radioisotopes;   

DOI  :  10.2172/912744
RP-ID  :  PNNL-16758
RP-ID  :  AC05-76RL01830
RP-ID  :  912744

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

Linkages to the Groundwater Modeling System have been developed at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to enable the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to more realistically assess the risk to the public of radioactive contaminants at NRC-licensed sites. Common software tools presently in use are limited in that they cannot assess contaminant migration through complex natural environments. The purpose of this initiative is to provide NRC with a licensing safety-analysis tool with sufficient power, flexibility, and utility that it can serve as the primary software platform for analyzing the hazards associated with licensing actions at those “complex” sites at which the traditional tools are inappropriate. As a tool designed to realistically approximate prospective doses to the public, this initiative addresses NRC’s safety-performance goal by confirming that licensing actions do not result in undue risk to the public.