| Abstract: | A plenty of plutonium is dealt in Plutonium Fuel Fabrication Facility and the facility is required to confine plutonium within a limited space such as glove box (GB) because plutonium is a-emitter and causes an internal exposure. The MOX particles entrainment occurs and some of them are transiting to the outlet of GB without deposition to floor and wall. The entraining rate and the transiting rate are reported as Airborne Release Fraction (ARF) and Respirable Fraction (RF) in the literatures. However, no activities of model development and analytical approach have been found for ARF and RF. Thus, a feasibility study is done in this paper on the behavior of MOX particles in GB such as entraining and transiting. A modeling code has been developed by improving AQUA-SF code and the RF values for abnormal occurrences, such as free-fall spill, outflow and fire, have been analyzed and compared with those reported. This paper also shows the analytical results of the improved code together with the simulated experimental results. It is found that the calculated values are almost corresponded to those reported and that the improved code can estimate MOX particle behavior in GB well. |
