CHAGAI-I NUCLEAR TEST

AERIAL SIMULATION
USING HYSPLIT MODEL

KIRAN BATOOL
190601006
 CONTENTS

• FORWARD AIR TRAJECTORY OF CHAGAI ON 28TH OF MAY 1998

• SATELLITE IMAGE
• BACKWARD AIR TRAJECTORY OF HYDERABAD ON 28TH OF MAY 1998
• ANALYSIS
• DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PAPER ASSIGNED AND RESEARCH CONDUCTED
 ANALYSIS

• THE DEVICE TYPE AT CHAGAI-I NUCLEAR TESTS WAS NUCLEAR FISSION AND
THE MOST COMMON CHEMICAL ELEMENT ISOTOPES THAT SUSTAIN
NUCLEAR FISSION REACTIONS ARE URANIUM235 AND PLUTONIUM239
• INHALING LARGE CONCENTRATIONS OF URANIUM CAN CAUSE SEVERE
HEALTH EFFECTS, SUCH AS BONE OR LUNG CANCER. INHALING PLUTONIUM
PARTICLES MAY LEAD TO LUNG DISEASE AND CANCER
• THERE IS A POSSIBILITY THAT THESE ELEMENTS SUSTAINED THE CHAGAI-I
NUCLEAR TESTS AND LATER PREVAILED IN THE AIR AS NUMEROUS CASES OF
LUNG, LIVER, AND BLOOD CANCER, SKIN DISEASES, TYPHOID AND
INFECTIOUS HEPATITIS HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN THE REGION THAT DID NOT
EXIST THERE BEFORE THE NUCLEAR TESTS WERE CONDUCTED
 MODELING THE FALLOUT
FROM STABILIZED NUCLEAR
CLOUDS USING THE HYSPLIT
ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION
MODEL
• THE HYSPLIT MODEL WAS CONFIGURED
TO SIMULATE THE TRANSPORT,
DISPERSION, AND DEPOSITION OF
NUCLEAR MATERIALS FROM THE
DETONATIONS OF SIX SURFACE-BASED
NUCLEAR TESTS WITH YIELDS RANGING
FROM 1.2 TO 44 KT,
• IT DISCUSSES DIFFERENT PARTICLE
ACTIVITY DISTRIBUTIONS IN DIFFERENT
LAYERS OF THE NUCLEAR CLOUDS
FORMED AFTERWARDS
• GLOBAL REANALYSIS METEOROLOGICAL
DATA AND WEATHER RESEARCH AND
FORECASTING (WRF) DATA WAS USED TO
OBTAIN NUCLEAR DISPERSION
SIMULATION
CHAGAI-I NUCLEAR TEST
AERIAL SIMULATION USING
HYSPLIT MODEL
• THE HYSPLIT MODEL WAS CONFIGURED
TO SIMULATE AIR TRAJECTORY OF
CHAGAI-I NUCLEAR TESTS CONDUCTED
IN UNDERGROUND STATION WITH MAX
YIELD OF 40 KT
• GLOBAL REANALYSIS
METEOROLOGICAL DATA (RES 2.5
DEGREES) WAS USED TO OBTAIN AIR
TRAJECTORY SIMULATION
• ANALYZES THE EFFECTS THE NUCLEAR
TESTS MIGHT HAVE HAD ON THE
REGION