Abstract:
From the standpoint of thermodynamic averaging of fission microprocesses, we
investigate the origin of radioactive release in an NPP after an accident or
after resource depletion. The genesis of the NPP release is interpreted as a new thermodynamic phenomenon, a zeroth-order phase transition. This problem
setting results in a problem in probabilistic number theory. We prove the corresponding theorem leading to quantization of the Zipf law for the frequency of
a zeroth-order phase transition with different values of
the jump of the Gibbs thermodynamic potential. We introduce the notion of hole
dimension.