On the calculated method for assessing the impact of hydrolysis products from uranium hexafluoride on the human body

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Introduction. This article refers to the authors’ calculation method for studying the effects UF6 (uranium hexafluoride, UHF) on the human body. A review of this method’s main ideas and the features of the approach to solving the problem at certain stages of the movement of UHF from being released into the air before entering the body is offered. The possibilities of the proposed method and its place in many well-known studies in this direction are described.

Material and methods. The research material is UHF. It serves as the primary working substance in technologies for enriching natural uranium with the 235U isotope. UHF, due to various circumstances, appears in the production room in a gaseous state. A method for studying the effects of UHF on humans is to describe the distribution processes of UHF molecules in the volume of the working room, chemical transformations of UHF, physical transformations of the resulting products, i.e., all processes accompanied by the delivery of toxic substances and their transfer from the source to the person and before excretion from the body in a natural way. The description of these processes is carried out analytically.

Results. Lists the results that can be obtained by calculation.

Discussion. A discussion of the results is carried out in the following areas. The issue of the possibility of using the described calculation method to solve the problems of ensuring labor safety at work is considered. The question of trust in the calculated values characterizing the effect of UHF on the human body is being studied. To solve this problem, we compared the calculated results obtained for a particular process and the experimental ones implemented in a similar process.

Conclusion. A conclusion is made regarding the advantages and disadvantages of the method under investigation for studying the effects of UHF on humans and determining their place among existing methods.

About the authors

Svetlana P. Babenko

N.E. Bauman Moscow State Technical University

Author for correspondence.
Email: noemail@neicon.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4878-1438
Russian Federation

Andrey V. Bad’In

M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University

Email: badyin@phys.msu.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6753-2728

MD, Ph.D., Associate Professor Moscow State University, Faculty of Physics, Department of Mathematics.

e-mail: badyin@phys.msu.ru

Russian Federation

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