EVALUATION OF SAMPLING LOCATIONS FOR TWO RADIONUCLIDE AIR-SAMPLING SYSTEMS BASED ON THE REQUIREMENTS OF ANSI/HPS N13.1-1999
| Autor: | J. M. Barnett, D. L. Edwards, John A. Glissmeyer, Marcel Y. Ballinger |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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Air sampling
Epidemiology Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Radiation Dosage Risk Assessment Sensitivity and Specificity Radiation Protection Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging National standard Radiometry Aerosols Radioisotopes Radionuclide Reproducibility of Results Sampling (statistics) United States Reliability engineering Nuclear facilities Sampling system Air Pollutants Radioactive Radioactive Waste Sample Size Environmental science National laboratory Scale model Environmental Monitoring |
| Zdroj: | Health Physics. 86:406-415 |
| ISSN: | 0017-9078 |
| DOI: | 10.1097/00004032-200404000-00010 |
| Popis: | The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory characterized the performance of sampling locations for two radionuclide air-sampling systems that continuously monitor radioactive air emissions from research and development facilities. The testing was conducted to determine whether sampling system locations would meet the criteria for uniform air velocity and contaminant concentration in the American National Standard Institute standard, Sampling and Monitoring Releases of Airborne Radioactive Substances from the Stacks and Ducts of Nuclear Facilities (ANSI/HPS N13.1-1999). The standard is a revision of the 1969 version that the facilities have been required to meet. Whereas the 1969 standard provided prescriptive criteria for the selection of sampling locations, the 1999 standard is performance-based and requires well-mixed sampling locations that must be demonstrated through performance tests that are specified in the standard. Testing at the Life Sciences Laboratory I was performed on the existing stack at the current sampling location; a scale model was built and used in place of the Radiochemical Processing Laboratory. Although both facilities' sampling sites were compliant with the 1969 standard, only the Radiochemical Processing Laboratory met the criteria of the revised standard. In the future, the use of a computational fluid dynamics computer model may be useful in determining whether a sampling location is likely to test successfully. |
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