Integrated Level 1–Level 2 decommissioning probabilistic risk assessment for boiling water reactors

Decommissioning Level 2 Probabilistic Risk Assessment Methodology for Boiling Water Reactors

This paper describes a methodology to evaluate the radiological risk of postulated accident scenarios during the decommissioning phase of commercial nuclear power plants. The fuel damage scenarios include those initiated while the reactor is permanently shut down and the spent fuel is initially located in the reactor pressure vessel and successively moved in the spent fuel storage pool. This pa...

The Regulatory Challenges of Decommissioning Nuclear Reactors

Pursuant to Article 1 of the Convention signed in Paris on 14th December 1960, and which came into force on 30th September 1961, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) shall promote policies designed: − to achieve the highest sustainable economic growth and employment and a rising standard of living in Member countries, while maintaining financial stability, and thus t...

Probabilistic Safety Assessment Applied to Research Reactors

The Decommissioning of Nuclear Reactors and Related Environmental Consequences The Decommissioning of Nuclear Reactors and Related Environmental Consequences

A few decades ago, it was said that the debate on nuclear power had “reached an intensity unprecedented in the history of technology controversies” (Kitschelt 1986). However, the controversy over nuclear power has resurfaced today with a similar gravity. Advocates point to nuclear power as a much-needed energy source in an era of rising demand and the need to curb carbon emission levels, and of...

NEDO-10527, "Rod Drop Accident Analysis For Large Boiling Water Reactors."

This report describes the current methods used by the Atomic Power Equipment Depart ment of the Genervl Electric Company for the analysis of superprompr critical nuclear excurions in lare war-rnsoderantd reactors The 7mchnical analysis tools used in studying hypothetical nuclear transients adescribed herein, without considering the probability of such an occurrence. The rod drop accident has be...