Email this article Modeling of 137Cs Dispersion in the Atlantic Ocean at Ahanta West Coast: A Hypothetical Candidate Site for Ghana’s First Nuclear Power Plant
Abstract
The government of Ghana has the intention of adding nuclear to its energy mix. Due to water availability for cooling, the coastal areas will be the right place for siting a nuclear power plant. This study was carried out to assess the distribution of 137Cs should liquid radioactive waste be released into coastal waters because of a non-routine event. The distribution was studied for the first month after the release. In the first week following the release, 137Cs was distributed within 16 km of the Ahanta West coastal waters with a concentration of about 9.1 Bq. L-1. On the seventh day, the distribution reached the entire coast of the Nzema East with a lower concentration with the bulk of the concentration still in the Ahanta waters. The 137Cs continued to spread into the eastern coast until the thirty-first day with a concentration of less than 1 Bq. L-1. This study provides useful data for future monitoring along the coast.
Keywords
Full Text:
PDFReferences
H. D. Livingston and P. P. Povinec, Ocean Coastal Manage. 43 (2000) 689.
A. Aarkrog, Deep Sea Res. Part II 50 (2003) 2597.
Y. Inomata and M. Aoyama, Earth Syst. Sci. Data 15 (2023) 1969.
J. V. I. Batlle, T. Aono, J. E. Brown et al., Sci. Total Environ. 487 (2014) 143.
R. Periáñez, F. Qiao, C. Zhao et al., Mar. Pollut. Bull. 170 (2021) 112645.
K. O. Buesseler, Sci. 369 (2020) 621.
Anonymous, National Energy Transition Framework 2022-2070, Ghana Ministry of Energy, Accra (2022) 1.
W. L. Chen, C. Y. Pan, H. H. Huang et al., J. Radioanal. Nucl. Chem. 329 (2021) 1345.
IAEA, Estimation of Global Inventories of Radioactive Waste and Other Radioactive Materials, IAEA-TECDOC-1591, Vienna (2008) 1.
Anonymous, Generic Design Assessment AP1000 Nuclear Power Plant Design by Westinghouse Electric Company LCC, Environment Agency, Bristol (2017) 1.
A. T. Prasetyo, Muslim and H. Suseno, J. Trop. Mar. 24 (2021) 291.
P. B. D. Bois, P., Laguionie, D. Boust et al., J. Environ. Radioact. 114 (2012) 2.
J. Hou, Y. Kang, C. Hu et al., Int. J. Sediment Res. 35 (2020) 386.
U. J. Wisha, T. A. Tanto, W. S. Pranowo et. al., Reg. Stud. Mar. Sci. 18 (2018) 177.
Anonymous, Hydro-Morphodynamics, Deltares (2014) 710.
H. Kawamura, A. Furuno, T. Kobayashi et al., J. Environ. Radioact. 180 (2017) 36.
K. Sakuma, T. Nakanishi, M. Yoshimura et al., J. Environ. Radioact. 208-209 (2019) 106041.
Environmental Protection Agency, State of the Marine Environment Report for Ahanta West, Ellembelle, Jomoro and Nzema East Districts in the Western Region of Ghana, Ghana Environmental Protection Agency, Accra (2020) 1.
M. Machida, S. Yamada, A. Iwata et al., J. Nucl. Sci. Technol. 57 (2020) 939.
M. Hassanvand and Z. Mirnejad, Prog. Nucl. Energy 116 (2019) 115.
M. Muslim, F. I. Maulana, H. Suseno et al., Atom Indones. 48 (2022) 231.
M. Muslim, H. Suseno and S. Saodah, J. Mar. Sci. 21 (2016) 143. (in Indonesian)
Y. P. Octavia, M. I. Jumarang and Apriansyah, Prisma Fisika 6 (2018) 1. (in Indonesian)
C. McSweeney, M. New and G. Lizano, UNDP Climate Change Country Profiles, Ghana. University of Oxford (2020) 1.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.55981/aij.2024.1344
Copyright (c) 2024 Atom Indonesia
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
