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Fission Product Release Calculations from a Reactor Containment Building

Clarence E. Lee, Courtney E. Apperson, Jr., John E. Foley

Nuclear Science and Engineering / Volume 64 / Number 1 / September 1977 / Pages 266-275

Technical Paper / dx.doi.org/10.13182/NSE77-A27097

An analytic containment building model used for calculating the leakage into the environment of each isotope of an arbitrary radioactive decay chain is described. The model accounts for source, buildup, decay, cleanup, and leakage of gas-borne isotopes that are inside the containment building.