Application of Bootstrap in Dose Apportionment of Nuclear Plants Via Uncertainty Modeling of the Effluent Released from Plants.pdf.pdf

World Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 2012, 2, 41-47 http://dx./.21007 Published Online January 2012 (rnal/wjnst) Application of Bootstrap in Dose Apportionment of Nuclear Plants via Uncertainty Modeling of the Effluent Released from Plants Debabrata Datta Health Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India Email: ******@ Received May 20, 2011; revised July 2, 2011; accepted August25, 2011ABSTRACT Nuclear power plants are always operated under the guidelines stipulated by the regulatory body. These guidelines ba- sically contain the technical specifications of the specific power plant and provide the knowledge of the discharge limit of the radioactive effluent into the environment through atmospheric and aquatic route. However, operational con- straints sometimes may violate the technical specification due to which there may be a failure to satisfy the stipulated dose apportioned to that plant. In a site having multi facilities sum total of the dose apportioned to all the facilities should be constrained to 1 mSv/year to the members of the public. Dose apportionment scheme basically stipulates the limit of the gaseous and liquid effluent released into the environment. Existing methodology of dose apportionment is subjective in nature that may result the discharge limit of the effluent in atmospheric and aquatic route i