Operational experience of continuous air monitoring of smoke for ²³⁹Pu during a wildfire.

Abstract:

:Smoke from a wildfire in northern New Mexico that moved along the border of the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) was monitored for ²³⁹Pu in the event that the fire might cross into LANL property containing locations with low, but greater than background, levels of ²³⁹Pu and other alpha-emitting radionuclides. Three Environmental Continuous Air Monitors (ECAMs) in operation at LANL at the time of the fire provided near real-time measurements of the ²³⁹Pu in the smoke. Sampling data from routine measurements of PM-10 and PM-2.5 concentrations in the city of Los Alamos showed that smoke in the air rose during the fire to several hundred μg m⁻³, which produced limited visibility (several hundred meters) and resulted in poor air quality alerts for about a week-long period. Previous studies have shown that airborne dust can significantly impair continuous air monitors, so the purpose of this study was to assess the performance of the ECAMs under smoky conditions, which is important for many emergency response scenarios. Additionally, ECAMs are not required to be tested in smoke by ANSI standards, so there is little to no published data on performance of any ECAM while sampling smoke. Results show that the deployed ECAMs had reduced flow as the filter clogged with fine particles, but the goodness-of-fit parameter of the peak shape fitting algorithms and the minimum detectable concentration and dose were not impacted until the flow was reduced by more than about 20%, and even then they were within tolerable limits. Overall, ECAM performance was not impacted during the fire even under heavy smoke conditions and fluctuating radon levels, though changing the filters to limit any reductions in flow to less than 20% would maintain optimal ECAM performance.

journal_name

Health Phys

journal_title

Health physics

authors

Whicker JJ,Baltz D,Eisele WF,Hart OF,McNaughton MW,Green AA

doi

10.1097/HP.0b013e318259f286

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2012-08-01 00:00:00

pages

S161-8

issue

2 Suppl 2

eissn

0017-9078

issn

1538-5159

pii

00004032-201208003-00007

journal_volume

103

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