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Nuclear Materials and Energy, 2022 Cs-bearing microparticles, released during the accident of Fukushima Daiichi, are a significant concern for health and environment due to their abundance over wide areas, associated with a low solubility.
Hugo Laffolley +4 more
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International Journal of Advanced Nuclear Reactor Design and Technology, 2023 Ex-vessel melt Retention (EVR) is one of the important countermeasures to address the issue of basement melt penetration in the course of a hypothetical severe accident in a nuclear power plant.
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Applied Sciences, 2023 Steam condensation plays an important role in various engineering processes due to its excellent heat transfer performance. However, condensation in the presence of noncondensable gas has attracted great attention in recent years since noncondensable gas
He Li +5 more
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International Journal on Cybernetics & Informatics, 2023 Road accidents have significant economic and societal costs, with a small number of severe accidents accounting for a large portion of these costs. Predicting accident severity can help in the proactive approach to road safety by identifying potential unsafe road conditions and taking well-informed actions to reduce the number of severe accidents. This
Adefabi, Adekunle +5 more
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MELCOR steady state calculation of the generic PWR of 40MWth
Brazilian Journal of Radiation Sciences, 2021 After the two most significant nuclear accidents in history – the Chernobyl Reactor Four explosion in Ukraine (1986) and the Fukushima Daiichi accident in Japan (2011) –, the Final Safety Analysis Report (FSAR) included a new chapter (19) dedicated to ...
Maritza Rodríguez Gual +2 more
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Accident Rate as a Measure of Safety Assessment in Polish Civil Engineering [PDF]
, 2019 Civil engineering is characterised by high volatility with respect to working conditions, which are the source of many threats to worker life and health and contribute to high accident rates.
Araszkiewicz, Krystyna +2 more
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Compensating for severe nuclear accidents: An expert elucidation [PDF]
, 2017 We present the results of a structured discussion held in London in July 2014 involving a panel of experts drawn from three communities: specialists on aspects of risk and insurance; lawyers concerned with issues of nuclear law; and safety and ...
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MODELING LOFW IN A PWR USING MELCOR
Brazilian Journal of Radiation Sciences, 2021 The Probabilistic Safety Assessment (PSA) is part of a Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) licensing process. It considers the elaboration and updating of probabilistic models that estimate the risk associated to the operation, allowing the risk monitoring from ...
Maritza Rodríguez Gual +3 more
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NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE SPREADING AND HEAT TRANSFER CHARACTERISTICS OF EX-VESSEL CORE MELT
Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2013 The flow and heat transfer characteristics of the ex-vessel core melt (corium) were investigated using a commercial CFD code along with the experimental data on the spreading of corium available in the literature (VULCANO VE-U7 test).
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Children's brain injury : a postal follow-up of 525 children from one health region in the UK [PDF]
, 2002 Primary objectives: to follow-up a population of children admitted to one Hospital Trust with traumatic brain injury (TBI), and compare outcomes following mild TBI with outcomes following moderate or severe TBI.
Hawley, Carol +3 more
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