Application of Bootstrap in Dose Apportionment of Nuclear Plants Via Uncertainty Modeling of the Effluent Released from Plants英文文献资料.docVIP

World Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 2012, 2, 41-47 /10.4236/wjnst.2012.21007 Published Online January 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/wjnst) Application of Bootstrap in Dose Apportionment of Nuclear Plants via Uncertainty Modeling of the Effluent Released from Plants Debabrata Datta Health Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India Email: ddatta@.in Received May 20, 2011; revised July 2, 2011; accepted August 25, 2011 ABSTRACT Nuclear power plants are always operated under the guidelines stipulated by the regulatory body. These guidelines ba- sically contain the technical specifications of the specific power plant and provide the knowledge of the discharge limit of the radioactive effluent into the environment through atmospheric and aquatic route. However, operational con- straints sometimes may violate the technical specification due to which there may be a failure to satisfy the stipulated dose apportioned to that plant. In a site having multi facilities sum total of the dose apportioned to all the facilities should be constrained to 1 mSv/year to the members of the public. Dose apportionment scheme basically stipulates the limit of the gaseous and liquid effluent released into the environment. Existing methodology of dose apportionment is subjective in nature that may result the discharge limit of the effluent in atmospheric and aquatic route in an adhoc manner. Appropriate scientific basis for dose apportionment is always preferable rather than judicial basis from the point of harmonization of establishing the dose apportionment. This paper presents an attempt of establishing the dis- charge limit of the gaseous and liquid effluent first on the basis of the existing value of the release of the same. Existing release data for a few years (for example 10 years) for any nuclear power station have taken into consideration. Boot- strap, a resampling technique,