On the job

The first thing we had to learn was how the program work. We used Hotspot 2.07.1 in order to see how an explosion, using radioactive substances, would look. We sat through numerous lectures explaining the equations the program used to calculate the area that would be effected. Once we finished learning the basic calculations we began to work in the actual program. It required quite a bit of trial and error in order to find out what parameters would give us the worst case scenarios. In the explosion scenarios, we changed several parameters including the wind speed, wind direction, stability class, and the TEDE levels. In the fire scenarios, we changed the same parameters and had to enter the radius of the fire and the cloud top values.