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Role of Passive Safety Systems in Chinese Nuclear Power Development [PDF]

open access: yesScience and Technology of Nuclear Installations, 2009
Passive safety systems have been widely applied to advanced water-cooled reactors, to enhance the safety of nuclear power plants. The ambitious program of the nuclear power development in China requires reactor concepts with high safety level.
X. Cheng   +3 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Studies on surface condensation for passive safety system in light water reactor: A review [PDF]

open access: yesNuclear Technology and Radiation Protection, 2023
A system with a passive mechanism has been considered to have better trustworthiness because it does not require an external driving force to function.
Susyadi   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Enhanced safety characteristics of SMART100 adopting passive safety systems

open access: yesNuclear 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 ...
Kyoo Hwan Bae   +6 more
openaire   +1 more source

Performance analysis of the passive safety features of iPOWER under Fukushima-like accident conditions

open access: yesNuclear 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
doaj   +1 more source

A Review: Passive System Reliability Analysis – Accomplishments and Unresolved Issues

open access: yesFrontiers in Energy Research, 2014
Reliability assessment of passive safety systems is one of the important issues, since safety of advanced nuclear reactors rely on several passive features.
ARUN KUMAR NAYAK   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Substantiation of strategies for the management of blackout accident at nuclear power plants with wwer-type reactors

open access: yesTrudy Odesskogo Politehničeskogo Universiteta, 2019
A conservative thermohydrodynamic model of an accident at a nuclear power plant with WWER has been developed for a design and modernized blackout accident management strategy.
Володимир Іванович Скалозубов   +5 more
doaj   +5 more sources

Experimental investigation of LWR passive safety systems performance at the INKA test facility [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2019
INKA is a test facility designed by Framatome and built in the technical center in Karlstein. The original objective for establishing this test rig was the investigation of the performance of the passive safety systems developed in a new Framatome ...
Bryk Rafał, Mull Thomas, Schmidt Holger
doaj   +1 more source

Automated identification of safety-critical attacks against CPS and generation of assurance case fragments

open access: yes
Ensuring the safety of cyber-physical systems (CPS) against cyber security threats is essential in safety-critical sectors. To this end, the systematic derivation of clear and robust safety claims is needed to demonstrate that safety properties are ...
Guerra, Sofia   +2 more
core   +5 more sources

Qualification of strategies for modernizing test frequency of safety systems at nuclear power facilities with extended time of fuel campaigns

open access: yesTrudy Odesskogo Politehničeskogo Universiteta
A risk-informed method for qualifying (substantiating) strategies for increasing the test periodicity of passive safety systems in the regimes of increasing the time of fuel campaigns of nuclear power facilities has been developed.
Володимир Іванович Скалозубов   +4 more
doaj   +5 more sources

The Ethics of Acceptable Safety [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Engineers of safety-critical systems have a duty to address ethical issues that may arise in the development, assessment, operation and maintenance of these systems. Dealing with ethical dilemmas during safety risk assessment is particularly challenging,
Megone, Christopher   +5 more
core   +1 more source

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