Safety Improvement at Nuclear Power Plants

Safety in nuclear power plants in India

Safety in nuclear power plants (NPPs) in India is a very important topic and it is necessary to dissipate correct information to all the readers and the public at large. In this article, I have briefly described how the safety in our NPPs is maintained. Safety is accorded overriding priority in all the activities. NPPs in India are not only safe but are also well regulated, have proper radiolog...

Probabilistic Safety Analysis in Safety Management of Nuclear Power Plants

Radiation Safety at Nuclear Power Plants: Studies Look at Public, Workers

Workers at U.S. facilities that use radioactive materials are subjected to a small occupational health risk. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission sets standards to ensure their safety. The agency limits worker doses to no more than five rem (5,000 millirems) per year and requires that occupational doses be kept “as low as reasonably achievable.” Radiation workers are individually monitored to reco...

Seismic Safety Analysis and Upgrading of Operating Nuclear Power Plants

Experience of the March 11 2011, Great Tohoku earthquake clearly demonstrated that the earthquakes might be the dominating contributors to the overall risk of nuclear power plants (Institute of Nuclear Power Operations [INPO], 2011); International Atomic Energy Agency [IAEA], 2007). The seismic probabilistic safety assessments of several nuclear power plants also provided similar results. On th...

Application of Information Theories to Safety of Nuclear Power Plants

It is widely recognized that safety of nuclear power plants is a problem of great relevance for society. If it is not properly managed, the increase in power and complexity of the plants can lead to a catastrophic release of energy and dangerous materials and pollute the environment. To prevent this to happen, the nuclear community always put significant efforts into finding new ways to improve...