- Author
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Kogan, V.
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Schumacher, P. M.
- Title
- Recommended Plutonium Release Fractions From Postulated Fires. Final Report.
- Coporate
- Battelle, Columbus, OH
- Sponsor
- EG&G Rocky Flats, Inc., Golden, CO
- Report
-
Final Report; RFP-4876,
December 1993,
104 p.
- Keywords
-
plutonium
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oxidation
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ignition point
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combustion
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boiling point
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pyrolysis
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cellulosic fuels
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solid waste
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fire plumes
- Identifiers
- airborne release fractions; respirable fractions; airborne releases from contaminated incombustible surfaces
- Abstract
- This report was written at the request of EG&G Rocky Flats, Inc. in support of joint emergency planning for the Rocky Flats Plant (RFP) by EG&G and the State of Colorado. The intent of the report is to provide the State of Colorado with an independent assessment of any respirable plutonium are of interest because they have been used by EG&G to determine the RFP emergency planning zones. These zones are based on the maximum credible accidemtn (MCA) described in the RFP Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) of 1980. That MCA is assumed to be a large airplane crashing into a RFP plutonium building. The objective of this report was first, to perform a worldwide literature review of relevant release experiments from 1960 to the present and to summarize those findings, and second, to provide recommendations for application of the experimental data to fire release analyses at Rocky flats. The latter step requires translation between experimental and expected RFP accident parameters, or "scaling". The parameters of particular concern are: quantities of material, environmental parameters such as the intensity of a fire, and the physico-chemical forms of the plutonium. The latter include plutonium metal, bulk plutonium oxide powder, combustible and noncombustible wastes contaminated with plutonium oxide powder, and residues from plutonium extraction processes.