Publications
Investigation of Mass Distributions in a Stabilized Plume for Various Lofting Energies and Meteorological Conditions
In support of the Cassini Mission Final Safety Analysis Report (FSAR), Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) was requested by Lockheed Martin Corporation (LMC) to investigate for various scenarios, the distribution of aerosol and particulate mass in a stabilized buoyant plume created as a result of a fireball explosion. The information obtained from these calculations is to provide background information for the radiological consequence analysis of the FSAR. Specifically, the information is used to investigate the mass distribution within the ''cap and stem'' portions of the initial fireball plume, a modeling feature included in the SATRAP module in the LMC SPARRC code. The investigation includes variation of the plume energy and the application of several meteorological conditions for a total of seven sensitivity case studies. For each of the case studies, the calculations were performed for two configurations of particle mass in the plume (total mass and plutonium mass).