Title: Calculation of the far range atmospheric transport of radionuclides after the Fukushima accident with the atmospheric dispersion model MATCH of the JRODOS system

Authors: Ivan V. Kovalets; Lennart Robertson; Christer Persson; Svitlana N. Didkivska; Ievgen A. Ievdin; Dmytro Trybushnyi

Addresses: Ukrainian Center of Environmental and Water Projects, Institute of Mathematical Machines and Systems Problems, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, prosp. Glushkova, 42, 03187, Kiev, Ukraine ' Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Environment and Safety Air Pollution, SE – 601 76 Norrköping, Sweden ' Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Environment and Safety Air Pollution, SE – 601 76 Norrköping, Sweden ' Ukrainian Center of Environmental and Water Projects, Institute of Mathematical Machines and Systems Problems, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, prosp. Glushkova, 42, 03187, Kiev, Ukraine ' Ukrainian Center of Environmental and Water Projects, Institute of Mathematical Machines and Systems Problems, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, prosp. Glushkova, 42, 03187, Kiev, Ukraine ' Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany

Abstract: The paper presents estimates of the far-range atmospheric dispersion of radionuclides after the accident at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), obtained using the long-range atmospheric dispersion model MATCH. Software tools were developed to run MATCH in the EU nuclear emergency response system JRODOS using freely available numerical weather prediction (NWP) data of the Global Forecasting System (GFS) operated by the United States National Center of Environmental Prediction (NCEP). Comparisons are made of results with JRODOS/MATCH and a standalone MATCH operated by Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) driven by the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) NWP data.

Keywords: long range atmospheric transport; 137Cs; MATCH model; Fukushima; nuclear emergency response; JRODOS system; deposition; nuclear accidents; radionuclides; atmospheric dispersion modelling; air pollution.

DOI: 10.1504/IJEP.2014.065110

International Journal of Environment and Pollution, 2014 Vol.54 No.2/3/4, pp.101 - 109

Published online: 29 Oct 2014 *

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