TY  - JOUR
T1  - Model Simulation of Cs-137 Contaminate at Al-Tuwaitha Site
AU - Abdulkareem, Ahmed Hazim AU - Mustafa, Ayad Sleibi AU - Soud, Rasha Ali 
JO  - Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences
VL  - 14
IS  - 3
SP  - 684
EP  - 692
PY  - 2019
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1816-949x
DO  - jeasci.2019.684.692
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=jeasci.2019.684.692
KW  - Simulation Model
KW  -Cs-137
KW  -MT3D
KW  -groundwater contamination
KW  -Tigris River
KW  -transport model
AB  - This study simulate the transfer of Cs-137 contaminate of the aquifer system for Nuclear Research
Center at Al-Tuwaitha site, using processing MODFLOW Software package Version 8. The site is located in
South of the province of Baghdad near the Tigris River and contaminated with radiation as a result of exposure
for bombing and acts of vandalism and looting in 2003. MT3D Model was used to study the contaminant
distribution in aquifer and its change with time. The results of transport model showed that the spread of Cs-137
contaminate increased with time and its direction with the ground water movement. The migration of
contaminants in horizontal direction is low which the seepage velocity for the first, second and third layer were
0.0357, 0.51 and1.76 m/year, respectively with approximately oval shape based on the ratio of longitudinal
dispersion and diffusion coefficients. A distance of 690 m that the plume moved during 20 years of the
simulation towards the pumping well existing in the direction of the water of the Tigris River. It was a
relationship between the surface water (Tigris River), groundwater and the nature of the soil, a change in one
of those elements may affect the others.
ER  -