Modelling dispersal of radioactive contaminants in Arctic waters as a result of potential recovery operations on the dumped submarine K-27
| Autor: | Justin Brown, Mark Dowdall, Frank Kauker, Ali Hosseini, R. Schnur, Per Strand, Michael Karcher |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Water Pollutants
Radioactive 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Arctic Regions Oceans and Seas Radioactive waste Submarine Models Theoretical 010501 environmental sciences Aquatic Science Contamination Oceanography 01 natural sciences Pollution Arctic Radiation Monitoring 13. Climate action Public arena Radioactive contamination Biological dispersal Environmental science Radiation monitoring 14. Life underwater Ships 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Marine Pollution Bulletin. 116:385-394 |
| ISSN: | 0025-326X |
| Popis: | Of the wide variety of dumped objects containing radioactive materials in the Arctic seas, the submarine K-27 constitutes a major risk due to the large amount of highly enriched uranium onboard and its location in shallow waters. As the matter of potential operations involving raising of the submarine have entered the public arena, a priori assessment of the contamination in the Arctic marine environment that could result after a possible accident during such operations is a matter of some interest. The dispersion of contaminants within the Arctic has been assessed using a large scale hydrodynamic model for a series of plausible accident scenarios and locations under different oceanographic regimes. Results indicate that, depending primarily on the nature of a release (i.e. instantaneous or continuous), large areas of the Arctic marine environment will exhibit contamination to varying degrees. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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