Diffusion in the vicinity of standard-design nuclear power plants--I. Wind-tunnel evaluation of diffusive characteristics of a simulated suburban neutral atmospheric boundary layer.
A large meteorological wind tunnel was used to simulate a suburban atmospheric boundary layer. The model-prototype scale was 1:300 and the roughness length was approximately 1.0 m full scale. The model boundary layer simulated full scale dispersion from ground-level and elevated release points over surfaces of comparable roughness length. This information should prove useful in a variety of transport and diffusion studies over short to moderate downwind distances. It will be used in Part II as the baseline data set with which to compare diffusion downwind of standard-design nuclear power plants.
D000398:Air Pollution, Radioactive / Q000032:analysis*; D004058:Diffusion; D008961:Models, Structural; D009688:Nuclear Reactors; D011210:Power Plants