The current empirical resuspension factor is based on the work of Maxwell and Anspaugh (2011). This resuspension factor was determined by fitting a double exponential to the collective data of over sixty different studies. The majority of these studies were airborne release events, and very few were surface releases. Further, most of these studies took data points on the order of weeks or months, not days. This has led to an overestimation of the resuspension factor in the early release phase. This is especially true in the case of a surface release, where predicted values are often four orders of magnitude greater than measured values. This report seeks to show the discrepancy between the predicted resuspension factor, and the measured resuspension factor at small times for a surface release.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Snyder, Holden

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-042722-172454
• 64581

Keyword

• Resuspension
• Health Physics
• Radioactivity

Advisor

• Medich, David Christopher

Year

• 2022

Date created

• 2022-04-27

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Physics

Rights statement

• In Copyright