Model for Transport of Accidently Released Radionuclides onto Rice-Fields and its Comparison with Experimental Data

사고시 논으로 유출된 핵종 이동 모델 및 실험결과와의 비교

  • Published : 2004.06.30

Abstract

A dynamic compartment model was developed to evaluate the transport of accidently released radionuclides onto rice-fields. In the model, the surface water compartment and shoot-base absorption were introduced to account for the effect of irrigation, which is essential to a rice cultivation. The soil mixing by plough and irrigation before transplanting rice was also considered, and the rate of root-uptake and shoot-base absorption were modeled in terms of the function of biomass. In order to test the validation of the model, it was applied to the analysis of some simulated $^{137}Cs$ deposition experiments that were performed while cultivating rice in a greenhouse using soils sampled from rice-fields around Kori, Yonggwang and Ulchin nuclear power plants. The model prediction was generally agreed within about one order of magnitude with experimental data.

핵종 누출 사고시 논으로의 핵종 이동 평가를 위한 동적격실모델을 개발하였다. 개발된 모델에는 벼 재배에 필수적인 관개수를 고려하여 표면수 격실과 줄기기부흡수 개념을 도입하였고, 이식 전 쟁기질과 관개담수에 의한 토양 혼합을 고려하였으며, 벼 성장에 따른 뿌리흡수상수, 줄기기부흡수상수의 변화를 생체량의 함수로 모델링하였다. 모델의 타당성 조사를 위해 고리, 영광 및 울진 원자력 발전소 주변 지역에서 채취한 논 토양으로 벼를 재배하면서 벼 생육단계별로 수행된 $^{137}Cs$ 모의 침적 실험 해석에 모델을 적용하였다. 모델은 대체적으로 한 승수 내에서 실험 결과와 잘 일치하였다.

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