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Title

Investigation of Tritium Gaseous Effluent Release Interception by Snow Precipitation at Cook Nuclear Power Plant

Organization

Department: Nuclear Eng'g & Health Physics

University: Idaho State University College: Science & Engineering Department: Nuclear Eng'g & Health Physics 23

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City

Pocatello

Coverage

Unknown to Unknown

Creator

Kent Fisher

Publisher

Idaho State University

Type

Thesis

Is Complete

Yes

Date Published

9/13/2016

Archive

digital

City: Pocatello

Degree

Master

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Abstract The purpose of this study was to detennine the rate at which snow precipitation intercepts tritium from air and detennine if any correlation exists between the tritium concentrations of the spent fuel pool, the primary cooling loops of both pressurized water reactor units onsite, the gaseous releases of tritium, tritium concentrations in snow samples. The rate at which snow precipitation intercepts gaseous tritium released by Cook Nuclear Power Plant likely falls within the range between lxI0-5 s-1 and l xl0-7 s-1 for the conditions at the site. This reflects averages of data accumulated over long periods of time that were created by varying environmental conditions during the sampling period. Analysis of the data showed no correlation between tritium concentrations of either of the individual unit cooling systems and the tritium releases. Moreover, no correlation between the spent fuel pool tritium concentrations and the tritium releases was observed and no correlation was established between the gaseous tritium releases and the snow concentrations of tritium. The poor time resolution of the data available was a significant factor in the results of this study.