title: Radioecological software package: an interactive computational system to simulate the behaviour of radionuclides in semi-natural environments.
abstract: RSP (Radioecological Software Package) is an interactive support system that simulates the behaviour of radionuclides in semi-natural environments and the consequences on the population in terms of the external exposure. RSP consists of three modules: the first one, soil mobility, simulates the vertical transport of radionuclide in soil using the mathematical model RABES. The second module, soil -to-plant transfer, simulates the radionuclide soil-to-plant transfer factor reported in the literature. Soil properties, vegetation types and environmental conditions are taken into consideration in the simulation process. In the third module, dose assessment, the dose-rate factor in air at a height of 1 m above ground can be calculated for sources distributed in a slab of finite thickness dn sources which are exponentially distributed with depth. The calculations are performed using DAGES Model, a Monte Carlo algorithm developed to simulated the photon transport for the soil/air configuration. A free copy of RSP can be downloaded from the website: http://imasl-apat.unsl.edu.ar.
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Matemática Aplicada San Luis, Universidad Nacional de San Luis, Consejo Nacional de investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Ej. de los Andes, San Luis, Argentina. hvelasco@unsl.edu.ar
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Velasco
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Carreño
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rodríguez
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Belle
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Sansone
mesh_terms: D000396:Air Pollutants, Radioactive / Q000032:analysis; D000465:Algorithms; D004777:Environment; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009010:Monte Carlo Method; D011868:Radioisotopes / Q000032:analysis* / Q000493:pharmacokinetics; D012984:Software; D012987:Soil / Q000032:analysis
chemical_list: D000396:Air Pollutants, Radioactive; D011868:Radioisotopes; D012987:Soil