Calculation of the far range atmospheric transport of radionuclides after the Fukushima accident with the atmospheric dispersion model MATCH of the JRODOS system. (1st January 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kovalets, Ivan V.; Robertson, Lennart; Persson, Christer; Didkivska, Svitlana N.; Ievdin, Ievgen A.; Trybushnyi, Dmytro
• Is Part Of: International journal of environment and pollution. Volume 54:Number 2-4(2014)
• Page Start: 101
• Page End: 109
• Publication Date: 2014-01-01
• Subjects: long range atmospheric transport -- 137Cs -- MATCH model -- Fukushima -- nuclear emergency response -- JRODOS system -- deposition; Environmental policy -- Periodicals; Environmental engineering -- Periodicals; Environmental sciences -- Periodicals; Pollution -- Periodicals; 363.73
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0957-4352

Abstract

The paper presents estimates of the far-range atmospheric dispersion of radionuclides after the accident at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), obtained using the long-range atmospheric dispersion model MATCH. Software tools were developed to run MATCH in the EU nuclear emergency response system JRODOS using freely available numerical weather prediction (NWP) data of the Global Forecasting System (GFS) operated by the United States National Center of Environmental Prediction (NCEP). Comparisons are made of results with JRODOS/MATCH and a standalone MATCH operated by Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) driven by the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) NWP data.