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Inflow<br />

Nuclides in a<br />

soluble phase<br />

Outflow<br />

Nuclide flow<br />

between the phases<br />

Nuclides in a<br />

solid/organic phase<br />

Figure 14-5. Compartment model of a peat bog.<br />

In SR-Can the site will be better known and the basis for modelling the ecosystem and interactions<br />

between different ecosystems will be improved. Figure 14-6 shows how a downstream<br />

nuclide transport can be handled in the biosphere model if the water flow at the site is known.<br />

In the sketch, nuclides are assumed to enter a peat bog, which can be modelled as indicated in<br />

Figure 14-6, via the groundwater. The radionuclide outflow from this model is shown as inflow<br />

to, for instance, a running water model and later to a lake model etc. In contrast to the models<br />

used in SR 97, humans may be exposed to nuclides from all modelled ecosystems at the same<br />

time, for example to radionuclides from peat combustion, irrigation of agricultural land by<br />

stream water and consumption of aquatic foodstuff from a lake.<br />

The biosphere calculations in SR 97 were performed in a separate code and imported to the<br />

Proper package as probability distributions. In SR-Can, the biosphere transport calculation will<br />

be performed in the Matlab/Simulink version of the safety assessment code. Biosphere simulations<br />

can either be performed as part of a probabilistic computational chain or separately with<br />

nuclide releases taken from each realization of the near- and far-field modules. EDFs will also<br />

be calculated in SR-Can.<br />

As a complement to the compartment-based biosphere models used in SR 97, work is under<br />

way to implement so-called process models in the biosphere simulation tool, see section 20.4.<br />

These models are based on considerations of energy and nutrition balances and can also be used<br />

to generate input data to the compartment models. By using the Matlab/Simulink package for<br />

simulation, it is possible to use these models in combination with previously existing compartment<br />

models and thereby perform more complex simulations.<br />

Inflow from<br />

the far field<br />

model<br />

Peat bog<br />

Running water<br />

Lake<br />

Figure 14-6. Coupling of biosphere modules for radionuclide transport.<br />

162 RD&D-<strong>Programme</strong> <strong>2004</strong>

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