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Global risk of radioactive fallout after major nuclear reactor accidents [PDF]
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2012 Major reactor accidents of nuclear power plants are rare, yet the consequences are catastrophic. But what is meant by "rare"? And what can be learned from the Chernobyl and Fukushima incidents?
J. Lelieveld, D. Kunkel, M. G. Lawrence
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Analysis of steam generator tube rupture accidents for the development of mitigation strategies
Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2022 We analyzed mitigation strategies for steam generator tube rupture (SGTR) accidents using MARS code under both full-power and low-power and shutdown (LPSD) conditions.
Jungjin Bang +5 more
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Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2015 Recently, severe accidents in nuclear power plants (NPPs) have become a global concern. The aim of this paper is to predict the hydrogen buildup within containment resulting from severe accidents.
Dong Yeong Kim +3 more
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Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2022 Dynamic fault tree (DFT) and its related research methods have received extensive attention in safety analysis and reliability engineering. DFT can perform reliability modelling for systems with sequential correlation, resource sharing, and cold and hot ...
Fang Zhao +5 more
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Assessment of radiological safety and emergency response of VVER-1200 type reactor
International Journal of Advanced Nuclear Reactor Design and Technology, 2022 We studied the radiological safety and emergency response of the VVER-1200 type nuclear power plant using the RASCAL 4.3 and HOTSPOT 3.1.2 codes for INES levels 5, 6, and 7 reactor accidents due to SBO concomitant with LOCA for both dry and rainy seasons.
S. Sultana Shiuli +6 more
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Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2017 This work looks at the effect of changes in kinetic parameters on simultaneous reactivity insertions and beam tube flooding in a typical material testing reactor-type research reactor with low enriched high density (U3Si2-Al) fuel. Using a modified PARET
Rubina Nasir +2 more
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CHIMIA, 2005 The fuel of power reactors can be damaged by both rapid reactivity insertion accidents (RIA) and by Loss of Coolant Accidents (LOCA) due to the break of a coolant pipe.
Martin A. Zimmermann, Gerhard Bart
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Nuclear reactor vessel water level prediction during severe accidents using deep neural networks
Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2019 Acquiring instrumentation signals generated from nuclear power plants (NPPs) is essential to maintain nuclear reactor integrity or to mitigate an abnormal state under normal operating conditions or severe accident circumstances.
Young Do Koo +3 more
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Empirical Risk Analysis of Severe Reactor Accidents in Nuclear Power Plants after Fukushima
Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations, 2012 Many countries are reexamining the risks connected with nuclear power generation after the Fukushima accidents. To provide updated information for the corresponding discussion a simple empirical approach is applied for risk quantification of severe ...
Jan Christian Kaiser
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Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2015 The thermal, mechanical, and neutronic performance of the metal alloy fast reactor fuel design complements the safety advantages of the liquid metal cooling and the pool-type primary system.
Tanju Sofu
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