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A monitoring network of the radioactive releases due to Garigliano nuclear power plant decommissioning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 June 2005

C. Sabbarese
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Seconda Università di Napoli, Via Vivaldi, 81100 Caserta, Italy, e-mail: Carlo.Sabbarese@unina2.it
A. M. Esposito
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Seconda Università di Napoli, Via Vivaldi, 81100 Caserta, Italy, e-mail: Carlo.Sabbarese@unina2.it
L. Visciano
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Seconda Università di Napoli, Via Vivaldi, 81100 Caserta, Italy, e-mail: Carlo.Sabbarese@unina2.it
A. d'Onofrio
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Seconda Università di Napoli, Via Vivaldi, 81100 Caserta, Italy, e-mail: Carlo.Sabbarese@unina2.it
C. Lubritto
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Seconda Università di Napoli, Via Vivaldi, 81100 Caserta, Italy, e-mail: Carlo.Sabbarese@unina2.it
F. Terrasi
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Seconda Università di Napoli, Via Vivaldi, 81100 Caserta, Italy, e-mail: Carlo.Sabbarese@unina2.it
V. Roca
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, Università di Napoli “Federico II", Via Cintia, Napoli, Italy
S. Alfieri
Affiliation:
Centrale Nucleare del Garigliano, SoGIN, Sessa Aurunca (Caserta), Italy
G. Migliore
Affiliation:
Centrale Nucleare del Garigliano, SoGIN, Sessa Aurunca (Caserta), Italy
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Abstract

The present study is the second part of a program of characterization of the site surrounding the SoGIN Garigliano Nuclear Power Plant (Southern Italy), which is currently involved in decommissioning activities. In the first phase of the project the reference groups of the population were established on the basis of a socio-economical study of the site; the radiological doses due to the assumed radioactive releases during the decommissioning phase were calculated by using climatological, hydrological, geomorphological parameters of the studied area; transport and diffusion specific models of some radionuclides in the environment were implemented to calculate the dose using specific evaluation software. The second part of the study focuses on the project of an environmental network designed in order to ensure the continuous monitoring of the radioactive release concentrations. All the criteria for the choice of grid points, by considering specific paths of transfer in the environment, were established for all the environmental compartments. A field campaign was carried out aiming to assess the “zero level" due to the natural radioactivity and past anthropogenic activities.

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© EDP Sciences, 2005

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