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Exploring Nuclear Energy Potential for Sustainable Development and Energy Security in Ghana: Challenges, Opportunities and Strategic Imperatives

open access: yesScience and Technology of Nuclear Installations, Volume 2025, Issue 1, 2025.
This review paper delves into Ghana’s pursuit of nuclear energy as a pivotal component for sustainable development. It highlights the potential benefits of nuclear power in bolstering energy security, stimulating economic growth and advancing environmental sustainability, framed around three core development pillars: economic progress, social ...
Rex G. Abrefah   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enhanced Stochastic Approaches of 1 : 4 PCCV in Nuclear Power Plant: Uncertainty Quantification and Fragility Assessment

open access: yesInternational Journal of Energy Research, Volume 2024, Issue 1, 2024.
Probabilistic evaluation of the internal pressure capacity before excessive leakage is essential for ensuring preemptive response in case of a severe accident in a prestressed concrete containment vessel (PCCV) subjected to internal pressure in a nuclear power plant.
Bu-Seog Ju, Ho-Young Son, Paolo Castaldo
wiley   +1 more source

Enhancing Resilience through Nuclear Emergency Preparedness at El Dabaa Site

open access: yesScience and Technology of Nuclear Installations, Volume 2024, Issue 1, 2024.
The research utilized advanced PCTRAN and RASCAL software to evaluate the potential radiological impacts of hypothetical accidents, specifically loss‐of‐coolant accident (LOCA) and long‐term station blackout (LTSBO), at the El Dabaa Nuclear Power Plant. Over a span of ten years, comprehensive meteorological data were meticulously analyzed to assess the
Waad Saleh, Juyoul Kim, Doddy Kastanya
wiley   +1 more source

DYNAMICS OF MANUFACTURING OF AN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION WITH EXCESS OF PERMISSIBLE LEVELS OF 137CS AND 90SR CONCENTRATION IN BELARUS

open access: yesРадиационная гигиена, 2015
The analysis of the volumes of manufacturing in Belarus of an agricultural production with excess of permissible levels of 137Cs and 90Sr concentration for the period which has passed after failure on the Chernobyl NPP is carried out.
N. N. Tsybulko
doaj  

Worst‐Case Accident Analysis of Accident Tolerant Fuel in NuScale Using RELAP5/MOD3‐Based Code

open access: yesInternational Journal of Energy Research, Volume 2024, Issue 1, 2024.
Research in nuclear engineering focusses on improving the safety of light water reactors (LWRs), driven by accidents like Fukushima in 2011. The severity of this accident was a result of active cooling system failures and cladding material oxidation resulting in hydrogen explosions.
Willem Zuidersma   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF SOME HEALTH INDICATORS OF VARIOUS RADIATION ACCIDENTS LIQUIDATORS

open access: yesРадиационная гигиена, 2016
The article presents the results of comparative investigation of morbidity and immunity of liquidators of radiation accidents occurred in South Urals (Kyshtym accident), at Chernobyl NPP and nuclear submarines (NS) consequences. The most evident immunity
V. M. Shubik
doaj  

RADIATION PROTECTION OF BELARUS POPULATION OF AFTER THE CHERNOBYL DISASTER

open access: yesРадиационная гигиена, 2015
The  article  describes  the  evolution  of  the  formation  of  the  conceptual  approaches  and  regulation documents for the population radiation protection the after the Chernobyl disaster in Belarus.
Ja. E. Kenigsberg, N. N. Tsybulko
doaj  

Analysis of the impact of features of radiation accidents on crisis risk communication

open access: yesРадиационная гигиена, 2021
In the event of radiation accidents and incidents related to a possible threat to public health, one of the tools for forming health-saving behavior of the population, ensuring the social acceptability of protective measures and reducing social tension ...
A. M. Biblin   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

CHERNOBYL HEALTH RADIOLOGICAL EFFECTS ON THE POPULATION OF RUSSIA: DATA OF THE NATIONAL REGISTRY

open access: yesРадиационная гигиена, 2017
Summarized radiation-epidemiological data on health effects of the accident at the Chernobyl NPP registered in the follow-up period 1986-2006 on the Russian population are reported.
V. K. Ivanov, A. F. Tsyb
doaj  

DYNAMICS OF THE RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION IN THE SURFACE LAYER OF SOILS IN BULGARIA TWENTY YEARS AFTER THE CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR POWER PLANT ACCIDENT [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Central European Agriculture, 2008
The twenty years period past after the contamination with radionuclides in 1986, as a result of the accident in the Chernobyl’s NPP, allowed the accumulation of rich data base for the radiation status of the soils in Bulgaria.
I YORDANOVA   +3 more
doaj  

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