Accidents
; Dispersion (waves)
; Dispersions
; Marine pollution
; Models
; Radioactive materials
; Submarines
; Accident scenarios
; Arctic
; Highly enriched uranium
; Hydrodynamic model
; Marine
; Nuclear submarine
; Radioactive contaminants
; Radioactive contamination
; Contamination
; Arctic
; marine environment
; model
; radioactive contamination
; analysis
; Arctic
; radiation monitoring
; sea
; ship
; theoretical model
; water pollutant
; water pollutant
; Arctic Regions
; Models, Theoretical
; Oceans and Seas
; Radiation Monitoring
; Ships
; Water Pollutants, Radioactive
Scopus学科分类:
Agricultural and Biological Sciences: Aquatic Science
; Earth and Planetary Sciences: Oceanography
; Environmental Science: Pollution
英文摘要:
Of the wide variety of dumped objects containing radioactive materials in the Arctic seas, the submarine K-27 constitutes a major risk due to the large amount of highly enriched uranium onboard and its location in shallow waters. As the matter of potential operations involving raising of the submarine have entered the public arena, a priori assessment of the contamination in the Arctic marine environment that could result after a possible accident during such operations is a matter of some interest. The dispersion of contaminants within the Arctic has been assessed using a large scale hydrodynamic model for a series of plausible accident scenarios and locations under different oceanographic regimes. Results indicate that, depending primarily on the nature of a release (i.e. instantaneous or continuous), large areas of the Arctic marine environment will exhibit contamination to varying degrees. � 2017 Elsevier Ltd
O.A.Sys - Ocean Atmosphere Systems GmbH, Tewessteg 4, Hamburg, Germany; Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority, PO Box 55, �ster�s, Norway; Centre for Environmental radioactivity (CERAD), �s, Norway; Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany
Recommended Citation:
Karcher M.,Hosseini A.,Schnur R.,et al. Modelling dispersal of radioactive contaminants in Arctic waters as a result of potential recovery operations on the dumped submarine K-27[J]. Marine Pollution Bulletin,2017-01-01,116(2018-01-02)