Valuing Health Effects of Natural Radionuclides Releases from Yatagan Power Plant (Report‪)‬

1. Introduction Yatagan Power Plant (YPP) is one of the largest lignite-fired power plants in Turkey with a total capacity of 630 MW. It has been operated in Mugla province at the western Anatolia since 1982 [1]. Lignite in Mugla province contains some uranium as all lignite does. That uranium passes to ash with a higher concentration during the firing process in furnace chamber at 1000[degrees]C. While well-urned ash goes to the plant chimney, the others are not burned perfectly, which are called slag ashen drops the furnace chamber floor [2,3]. The radioactive flying ash is released to the atmosphere, depending on the efficiency of the plant's chimney emission control equipment. The major potential pathway, which might result in increased radiation doses to people are inhalation of flying ash, ingestion of food grown in contaminated soil or direct radiation exposure from the increased deposited radioactivity when flying ash are released from the plant chimney [4,5].