- Author
- Briggs, G. A.
- Title
- Plume Rise.
- Coporate
- Environmental Science Services Administration, Oak Ridge, TN
- Report
- TID-25075; LC Card #72-603261, November 1969, 85 p.
- Keywords
- air pollution | nuclear power plants
- Abstract
- Scientists and technologists have been concerned in recent years about the "explosion" of original literature engendered by the staggering volume of research and development being undertaken through the world. It has proved all but impossible for scientific workers to keep up with current progress even in quite narrow fields of interest. Automated retrieval systems for identifying original literature pertient to the interests of individuals are being developed. These systems are only a partial solution, however, because the original literature is too large, too diverse, too uneven in quality, to fully satisy by itself the information needs of scientists. In this situation of vastly expanding knowledge, there is increasing recognition of the valuable role that can be played by critical reviews of the literature and of the results of research in specialized fields of scientific interest. This review is also significant as a further step in the increasing effort of the AEC to assure that nuclear plants operate safely. Plume Rise is a much needed addition in a field in which a meterologist must choose from over 30 different plume-rise formulas to predict how effluents from nuclear plants are dispersed into the atmosphere.