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Passive Safety Systems in Advanced PWRs
Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations, 2009 Passive safety systems have been widely applied to advanced water-cooled reactors (WCRs), to enhance the safety of nuclear power plants. For the near term and medium term, the Chinese government decided for advanced pressurized water reactors with an extensive usage of passive safety systems.
Xu Cheng +3 more
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Energies, 2021 Passive systems are fundamental for the safe development of Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) technology. The accurate assessment of their reliability is crucial for their use in the nuclear industry.
Francesco Di Maio +4 more
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Improvement of road safety using passive and active intelligent vehicle safety systems [PDF]
Transport, 2007 Following the measures foreseen in the Transport White Paper 2001, situation of road safety has improved. Road fatalities have declined by more than 17 % since 2001 in the EU.
Aldona Jarašūnienė +1 more
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Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2019 After the Fukushima Daiichi accident, there has been an increasing preference for passive safety features in the nuclear power industry. Some passive safety systems require limited active components to trigger subsequent passive operation.
Sang Hee Kang +2 more
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Enhanced safety characteristics of SMART100 adopting passive safety systems
Nuclear Engineering and Design, 2021 Abstract SMART100 is a small sized integral type pressurized water reactor (PWR) with a rated thermal power of (Chung et al., 2015) 365 MW, which adopts various inherent and passive design features to enhance safety. Most of the primary circuit components, such as the core, reactor coolant pumps, steam generators, and a steam pressurizer are ...
Yongjae Lee
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Application of REPAS Methodology to Assess the Reliability of Passive Safety Systems [PDF]
Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations, 2009 The paper deals with the presentation of the Reliability Evaluation of Passive Safety System (REPAS) methodology developed by University of Pisa. The general objective of the REPAS is to characterize in an analytical way the performance of a passive ...
Franco Pierro +3 more
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New technical solutions for the design of NPP passive safety systems [PDF]
Nuclear Energy and TechnologyThe paper describes the new principle of passive NPP safety systems designing, in which the natural circulation of working fluid or gas is replaced by forced circulation in order to increase it’s capacity.
Sergey L. Soloviev +4 more
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A New Function-Topology-Based Method for Assessing Passive Safety of Mechatronics Systems
IEEE Access, 2020 Various safety assessment models for predicting the future state of systems based on online monitoring data have been proposed. However, the complexity and interdependencies of mechatronics systems make it improbable to predict and prevent all possible ...
Shuai Lin +3 more
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Dynamic Probabilistic Risk Assessment of Passive Safety Systems for LOCA Analysis Using EMRALD
Journal of Nuclear EngineeringThis research explores Dynamic Probabilistic Risk Assessment (DPRA) using EMRALD to evaluate the reliability and safety of passive safety systems in nuclear reactors, with a focus on mitigating Loss of Coolant Accidents (LOCAs).
Saikat Basak, Lixuan Lu
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EnergiesThe Spent Fuel Pool (SFP) is part of the fuel handling and storage system and is generally arranged in an independent building on the Nuclear Island (NI) of Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs).
Zhenjie Gu, Xiaopan Jia, Jincheng Su
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