Validation and software documentation of the ANL fish-impingement model. [Mathematical model evaluation]

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This report contains the results of a validation test of the ANL Fish Impingement Model. By the use of 1974 fish-impingement and environmental data from the Zion Nuclear Power Station, it is shown that the modified and expanded mathematical model yields reasonably good results in calculations of daily fish-impingement losses at the cooling water intakes. Comparisons confirmed that the fish-impingement process depends primarily on the abundance of fish in the vicinity of a cooling water intake, whereas the probability function gives the susceptibility to impingement provided that fish are present in the intensity region. In view of the limited amount of information available with regard to the various environmental and fish-abundance factors, it appears that the present form of the model is adequate and that efforts to refine the model further are not warranted.

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