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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Environ. Sci.
Sec. Atmosphere and Climate
Volume 12 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2024.1455273
This article is part of the Research Topic Dust and Polluted Aerosols: Sources, Transport and Radiative Effects Volume II View all articles

Numerical study for atmospheric transport of radioactive materials for hypothetical severe accident under different meteorological conditions

Provisionally accepted
Zhenhui Ma Zhenhui Ma *Zhiming Li Zhiming Li Xiuhuan Tang Xiuhuan Tang Longbo Liu Longbo Liu Lihong Bao Lihong Bao Chunlei Su Chunlei Su Da Li Da Li Baosheng Wang Baosheng Wang Yonggang Zhangsun Yonggang Zhangsun Pan Hu Pan Hu Tengyue Ma Tengyue Ma Lixin Chen Lixin Chen
  • Northwest Nuclear Technology Research Institute, Xi'an, China

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    Study for atmospheric transport is essential for consequence assessment of severe nuclear accident, since radionuclides could be released from nuclear facility into atmosphere, and cause radioactive pollution in environment. Atmospheric transport behaviors are strongly related with meteorological conditions, which can obviously influence transport and diffusion characteristics of radioactive materials in atmosphere, thus it is meaningful to investigate the coupling effects between meteorological processes and transport behaviors of radioactive materials. In this paper, so as to evaluate the influence of meteorological conditions on atmospheric transport, meteorological parameters for different seasons were firstly acquired by weather research forecast model. Furthermore, atmospheric transport behaviors of radioactive materials were simulated by meso-scale numerical model under different meteorological conditions, and numerical analysis were conducted towards transport and deposition behaviors of radioactive materials. Besides, the influence of FDDA (Four Dimensional Data Assimilation) on meteorological parameters and atmospheric transport behaviors were researched in the paper. The present study is important for strengthening consequence assessment under severe nuclear accident, and made it possible to apply data assimilation technology in the further research work.

    Keywords: Nuclear accident, atmospheric transport, Meteorology, Radioactive materials, data assimilation

    Received: 26 Jun 2024; Accepted: 28 Aug 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Ma, Li, Tang, Liu, Bao, Su, Li, Wang, Zhangsun, Hu, Ma and Chen. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Zhenhui Ma, Northwest Nuclear Technology Research Institute, Xi'an, China

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