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Perspectives on a Severe Accident Consequences—10 Years after the Fukushima Accident
Journal of Nuclear Engineering, 2021 Scientific issues that draw international attention from the public and experts during the last 10 years after the Fukushima accident are discussed. An assessment of current severe accident analysis methodology, impact on the views of nuclear reactor ...
Jinho Song
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EnergiesThe wind loading test serves as a critical validation experiment for the Passive Air-Cooling System (PAS) ACP100. However, it remains unclear how the highly scaled-down experimental setup can accurately account for the influence of the steel shell wall ...
Hongliang Wang +6 more
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Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2021 The objective of this study is to estimate the occurrence probabilities of severe accident phenomena based on a fuzzy elicitation technique. Normally, it is difficult to determine these probabilities due to the lack of information on severe accident ...
Young A Suh, Kiwon Song, Jaehyun Cho
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EnergiesIn addition to convective heat transfer, radiation heat transfer constitutes a significant component of the thermal performance of Passive Containment Air-Cooling System (PAS). The installation of radiation plates within the PAS flow channel enhances the
Hongliang Wang +6 more
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Enhancement of Pool Boiling Heat Transfer in Water Using Sintered Copper Microporous Coatings
Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2016 Pool boiling heat transfer of water saturated at atmospheric pressure was investigated experimentally on Cu surfaces with high-temperature, thermally-conductive, microporous coatings (HTCMC).
Seongchul Jun +4 more
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Numerical simulation on heat transfer in RPV lower head corium pools
He jishu, 2022 BackgroundIn-vessel Retention (IVR) refers to the prevention of pressure vessel melt-through failure by injecting cooling water into the gap between the pressure vessel and the heat insulation layer during a serious accident in a nuclear power plant ...
ZHU Guangyu +4 more
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Machine learning-based categorization of source terms for risk assessment of nuclear power plants
Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2022 In general, a number of severe accident scenarios derived from Level 2 probabilistic safety assessment (PSA) are typically grouped into several categories to efficiently evaluate their potential impacts on the public with the assumption that scenarios ...
Kyungho Jin, Jaehyun Cho, Sung-yeop Kim
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EnergiesCombustion caused by hydrogen-dominated combustible gas mixtures presents critical threats to nuclear safety during severe accidents in nuclear power plants, primarily due to their propensity for flame acceleration, deflagration, and subsequent ...
Ran Liu +5 more
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High-Resolution Road Vehicle Collision Prediction for the City of Montreal
, 2019 Road accidents are an important issue of our modern societies, responsible for millions of deaths and injuries every year in the world. In Quebec only, in 2018, road accidents are responsible for 359 deaths and 33 thousands of injuries. In this paper, we
Glatard, Tristan +3 more
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Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations, 2012 Unlike design basis accidents, some inherent uncertainties of the reliability of instrumentations are expected while subjected to harsh environments (e.g., high temperature and pressure, high humidity, and high radioactivity) occurring in severe nuclear ...
Kil-Mo Koo +6 more
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