HARAD: a computer code for calculating daughter concentrations in air following the atmospheric release of a parent radionuclide

Radiological Assessment of Atmospheric Release from Tehran Research Reactor during Normal Operation by Using Pc-Cream Code

International Letters of Natural Sciences ◽

10.18052/www.scipress.com/ilns.54.17 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 54 ◽

pp. 17-26

Author(s):

Nahid Sadeghi ◽

Rohollah Ahangari

Keyword(s):

Research Reactor ◽

Computer Code ◽

Laboratory Analysis ◽

Air Transport ◽

Normal Operation ◽

Radiological Assessment ◽

Tehran Research Reactor ◽

Tehran Province ◽

The Individual ◽

Atmospheric Release

In this work, radiological assessment of atmospheric release from Tehran’s Research Reactor (TRR) stack and assessment of public exposures under normal operation has been studied. To perform tasks mentioned above, Pc-Cream computer code which simulates Gaussian Dispersion air transport plume model as well as laboratory analysis of the soil and leaves samples and TLD (Thermo Luminescent Dosimeter) monitoring around the TRR site was used. Results of the Pc-Cream code showed that the annual committed and external dose received by the individual in the vicinity of the reactor is below the regulatory limit. Also, the results of laboratory analysis of available radionuclides in the soil and leaves samples showed that the concentrations are close to the background (K40=635, Th232=28, Cs137=0.29 up to 28.82, Ra226=25 (Bq[1]/Kg) in soil and K40=457, Be7≈70 (Bq/Kg) in leaves) and confirm the code results. The monitored dose values of the TLD detectors were positioned around the reactor within 500 m radius shows that the background dose in vicinity of TRR (113 μSv up to 150 μSv) is consistent with the background dose in Tehran province (125 μSv).

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WRAITH - A Computer Code for Calculating Internal and External Doses Resulting From An Atmospheric Release of Radioactive Material

10.2172/1077980 ◽

1980 ◽

Author(s):

R. I. Scherpelz ◽

F. J. Borst ◽

G. R. Hoenes

Keyword(s):

Computer Code ◽

Radioactive Material ◽

Atmospheric Release

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The Computational Sublime in Nick Montfort's ‘Round’ and ‘All the Names of God’

CounterText ◽

10.3366/count.2015.0027 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 1 (3) ◽

pp. 348-365 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Mario Aquilina

Keyword(s):

Computer Code ◽

Computer Programs ◽

Literary Text ◽

Text Generation ◽

Mathematical Concepts ◽

Literary Space

What if the post-literary also meant that which operates in a literary space (almost) devoid of language as we know it: for instance, a space in which language simply frames the literary or poetic rather than ‘containing’ it? What if the countertextual also meant the (en)countering of literary text with non-textual elements, such as mathematical concepts, or with texts that we would not normally think of as literary, such as computer code? This article addresses these issues in relation to Nick Montfort's #!, a 2014 print collection of poems that presents readers with the output of computer programs as well as the programs themselves, which are designed to operate on principles of text generation regulated by specific constraints. More specifically, it focuses on two works in the collection, ‘Round’ and ‘All the Names of God’, which are read in relation to the notions of the ‘computational sublime’ and the ‘event’.

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