An Analysis of a Hypothetical Release of Cesium-137 from a Spent Fuel Pool Fire at Kori-3 in South Korea

摘要

A hypothetical spent fuel pool fire at Kori-3 could contaminate not only a large part of South Korea, up to about a half of its area for which the surface contamination level of Cs-137 exceeds 1.0 MBq/m2 and thus force up to about 24 million to be relocated, but also results in large areas of contamination in neighboring countries depending on prevailing weather conditions at the time of the spent fuel pool fire.