Improvement of internal exposure assessments of the inhalation of fuel-type hot particles during long-term outages
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During outages at nuclear power plants, much more care for radiation workers against internal exposure should be ensured given that more hot particles exist relative to the amount during normal operation. If fuel-type hot particles (FTHP) are inhaled, they can cause more severe health risks compared to activation-type hot particles (ATHP), which contain 60Co, due to the alpha-emitting nuclides within FTHPs. The activities of difficult-tomeasure nuclides within FTHPs inhaled by workers are inferred by the age-dating technique using a141Ce/144Ce ratio as measured by whole-body counters. However, this method may be limited to outages that last for only a few months due to the short half-life (32.5 days) of 141Ce. We studied the feasibility of utilizing 241Am, a nuclide with a long half-life of 432.6 years, as an alternative to 141Ce. Additionally, we improved the performance of a stand-type whole-body counter for low-energy gamma spectroscopy to meet the criterion (RMSE ≤0.25) specified in ANSI/HPS N13.30–2011 by employing an artificial neural network (ANN). This study can contribute to more rapid and accurate internal dose assessments for workers who have inhaled FTHPs during long-term outages at nuclear power plants.
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During outages at nuclear power plants, much more care for radiation workers against internal exposure should be ensured given that more hot particles exist relative to the amount during normal operation. If fuel-type hot particles (FTHP) are inhaled, they can cause more severe health risks compared to activation-type hot particles (ATHP), which contain 60Co, due to the alpha-emitting nuclides within FTHPs. The activities of difficult-tomeasure nuclides within FTHPs inhaled by workers are inferred by the age-dating technique using a141Ce/144Ce ratio as measured by whole-body counters. However, this method may be limited to outages that last for only a few months due to the short half-life (32.5 days) of 141Ce. We studied the feasibility of utilizing 241Am, a nuclide with a long half-life of 432.6 years, as an alternative to 141Ce. Additionally, we improved the performance of a stand-type whole-body counter for low-energy gamma spectroscopy to meet the criterion (RMSE ≤0.25) specified in ANSI/HPS N13.30–2011 by employing an artificial neural network (ANN). This study can contribute to more rapid and accurate internal dose assessments for workers who have inhaled FTHPs during long-term outages at nuclear power plants.
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