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Methodology and techniques of early detection anomalies 85Kr and 3H in near bottom layer of sea water by water infiltration in spent nuclear fuel in dumpsites of the ship and submarine reactors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 June 2005

J.C. Barescut ,
J.C. Gariel ,
J.M. Péres ,
V. N. Soyfer ,
V. A. Goryachev ,
O. V. Ponomarev ,
D. V. Andreev ,
I. R. Barabanov ,
E. A. Yanovich  and
A. P. Borisov
V. N. Soyfer
Affiliation:
V.I. Il'ichev Pacific Oceanology Institute Far-Eastern Branch RAS, Vladivostok, Russia
V. A. Goryachev
Affiliation:
V.I. Il'ichev Pacific Oceanology Institute Far-Eastern Branch RAS, Vladivostok, Russia
O. V. Ponomarev
Affiliation:
V.I. Il'ichev Pacific Oceanology Institute Far-Eastern Branch RAS, Vladivostok, Russia
D. V. Andreev
Affiliation:
Russian Scientific Centre “Kurchatov Institute", Moscow, Russia
I. R. Barabanov
Affiliation:
Institute for Nuclear Research RAS, Moscow, Russia
E. A. Yanovich
Affiliation:
Institute for Nuclear Research RAS, Moscow, Russia
A. P. Borisov
Affiliation:
V.I. Vernadsky Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry Institute RAS, Moscow, Russia
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Abstract

Assessment of the future radioactive environmental contamination threat by releases from dumped submarine and ship reactors with Spent Nuclear Fuel (SNF) is a project goal. The methodology of detection of traces of 85Kr and 3H (which the first are leaking from the SNF) in sea water is advanced. Search of ship nuclear reactors on a bottom in dumpsites on 85K plume is proposed. Investigation of releases from the dumped ship reactors with SNF of icebreaker “Lenin" in Kara Sea is launched (September 2003). Research has complex character: experiments with SNF, creation of techniques located on R/V “Ak. B. Petrov" and expedition works. Preliminary observation of hydrological characteristics in zone of marked dumpsites has been fulfilled. The first results on the 85Kr concentration in near-bottom layer of Kara and the Barents Seas also Tritium and Radiocesium during August 2003 were obtained.

Type
Research Article
Information
Radioprotection , Volume 40 , Issue S1 , May 2005 , pp. S669 - S675
Copyright
© EDP Sciences, 2005

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