NUTRAN: a computer model of long-term hazards from waste repositories

The NUTRAN package of computer programs calculates doses to humans from radioactivity carried out of deep geologic waste repositories by groundwater. It consists of four codes: ORIGEN (developed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory), which treats the formation and decay of radionuclides, WASTE, which computes the transport of radionuclides in ground water, BIODOSE, which calculates radionuclide transport in surface waters and ecosystems and human exposures, and WPPLOT, which combines the results of WASTE and BIODOSE into usefully formatted outputs. This report describes what the WASTE, BIODOSE, and WPPLOT codes do. The equations they compute are presented in detail and their meaning is explained. Auxiliary programs which facilitate input and data management operations are also described