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Identifying Optimal Agricultural Countermeasure Strategies for a Hypothetical Contamination Scenario Using the Strategy Model by G. Cox; N.A. Beresford; B. Alvarez-Farizo; D. Oughton; Z. Kis; K. Eged; H. Thørring; J. Hunt; S. Wright; C.L. Barnett; J.M. Gil; B.J. Howard; N.M.J. Crout is a Environmental Science article available to read on EtoBox.

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A spatially implemented model designed to assist the identification of optimal countermeasure strategies for radioactively contaminated regions is described. Collective and individual ingestion doses for people within the affected area are estimated together with collective exported ingestion dose. A range of countermeasures are incorporated within the model, and environmental restrictions have been included as appropriate. The model evaluates the effectiveness of a given combination of countermeasures through a cost function which balances the benefit obtained through the reduction in dose with the cost of implementation. The optimal countermeasure strategy is the combination of individual countermeasures (and when and where they are implemented) which gives the lowest value of the cost function. The model outputs should not be considered as definitive solutions, rather as interactive inputs to the decision making process. As a demonstration the model has been applied to a hypothetical scenario in Cumbria (UK). This scenario considered a published nuclear power plant accident scenario with a total deposition of 1.7x10(14), 1.2x10(13), 2.8x10(10) and 5.3x10(9)Bq for Cs-137, Sr-90,

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Author

G. Cox; N.A. Beresford; B. Alvarez-Farizo; D. Oughton; Z. Kis; K. Eged; H. Thørring; J. Hunt; S. Wright; C.L. Barnett; J.M. Gil; B.J. Howard; N.M.J. Crout

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV; Publons (ISSN 0265-931X)

Published

2005

Language

EN

Field

Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)