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Accident Simulation Study For Nuclear Power Plants Impacting Louisiana, Michael D. Mcmahon
Accident Simulation Study For Nuclear Power Plants Impacting Louisiana, Michael D. Mcmahon
LSU Master's Theses
INTRODUCTION: Louisiana has aligned its radiological emergency program with the 2017 Environmental Protection Agency Protective Action Guides Manual, but has added a child thyroid dose evacuation threshold in lieu of distributing Potassium Iodide to the public. The nuclear power plants will continue to align with the 1992 manual for the foreseeable future, so that under some accident scenarios the state recommendations will differ from those of the utility.
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study is to predict what accident and weather conditions will lead to a differing set of recommendations.
METHODS: More than 1000 simulations were performed of low-filtration nuclear …