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Impingement of marine organisms in a tropical atomic power plant cooling water system
S Barath Kumar1, A K Mohanty1, N P I Das1
1Environment and Safety Division, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam 603102, India.
Abstract:
A one-year impingement monitoring was conducted at Madras Atomic Power Station (MAPS), Kalpakkam, southeastern coast of India and identified a total of 67 species of marine organisms in the cooling water system. Estimates of total annual impingement contributed about 1.47×106 individuals and 142.5t of biomass. Jellyfish contributed about 6.8×105 individuals and 135.6t of biomass. Crabs, shrimps and fish were the most vulnerable organisms contributing about 4.29×105 individuals, 1.39×105 individuals and 2.16×105 individuals respectively. Commercially important species namely Trichiurus lepturus, Sardinella longiceps and Portunus pelagicus were found to be impinged 1.88% and 0.29% by number and weight of the total biomass respectively. Out of ~327 fish species recorded at Kalpakkam, only about 9.4% of species were impinged at MAPS. Multispecies impingement at MAPS poses the problem of finding the best mitigation options for tropical conditions.
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