Nuclear Safety
eBook - ePub

Nuclear Safety

  1. 448 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Nuclear Safety

About this book

Nuclear Safety provides the methods and data needed to evaluate and manage the safety of nuclear facilities and related processes using risk-based safety analysis, and provides readers with the techniques to assess the consequences of radioactive releases. The book covers relevant international and regional safety criteria (US, IAEA, EUR, PUN, URD, INI). The contents deal with each of the critical components of a nuclear plant, and provide an analysis of the risks arising from a variety of sources, including earthquakes, tornadoes, external impact and human factors. It also deals with the safety of underground nuclear testing and the handling of radioactive waste. - Covers all plant components and potential sources of risk including human, technical and natural factors. - Brings together information on nuclear safety for which the reader would previously have to consult many different and expensive sources. - Provides international design and safety criteria and an overview of regulatory regimes.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover image
  2. Title page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Preface
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Chapter 1: Introduction
  7. Chapter 2: Inventory and localization of radioactive products in the plant
  8. Chapter 3: Safety systems and their functions
  9. Chapter 4: The classification of accidents and a discussion of some examples
  10. Chapter 5: Severe accidents
  11. Chapter 6: The dispersion of radioactivity releases
  12. Chapter 7: Health consequences of releases
  13. Chapter 8: The general approach to the safety of the plant-site complex
  14. Chapter 9: Defence in depth
  15. Chapter 10: Quality assurance
  16. Chapter 11: Safety analysis
  17. Chapter 12: Safety analysis review
  18. Chapter 13: Classification of plant components
  19. Chapter 14: Notes on some plant components
  20. Chapter 15: Earthquake resistance
  21. Chapter 16: Tornado resistance
  22. Chapter 17: Resistance to external impact
  23. Chapter 18: Nuclear safety criteria
  24. Chapter 19: Nuclear safety research
  25. Chapter 20: Operating experience
  26. Chapter 21: Underground location of nuclear power plants
  27. Chapter 22: The effects of nuclear explosions
  28. Chapter 23: Radioactive waste
  29. Chapter 24: Fusion safety
  30. Chapter 25: Safety of specific plants and of other activities
  31. Chapter 26: Nuclear facilities on satellites
  32. Chapter 27: Erroneous beliefs about nuclear safety
  33. Chapter 28: When can we say that a particular plant is safe?
  34. Chapter 29: The limits of nuclear safety: the residual risk
  35. Additional references
  36. Appendix 1: The Chernobyl accident
  37. Appendix 2: Calculation of the accident pressure in a containment
  38. Appendix 3: Table of safety criteria
  39. Appendix 4: Dose calculations
  40. Appendix 5: Simplified thermal analysis of an insufficiently refrigerated core
  41. Appendix 6: Extracts from EUR criteria (December 2004)
  42. Appendix 7: Notes on fracture mechanics
  43. Appendix 8: US general design criteria
  44. Appendix 9: IAEA criteria
  45. Appendix 10: Primary depressurization systems
  46. Appendix 11: Thermal-hydraulic transients of the primary system
  47. Appendix 12: The atmospheric dispersion of releases
  48. Appendix 13: Regulatory framework and safety documents
  49. Appendix 14: USNRC Regulatory Guides and Standard Review Plan
  50. Appendix 15: Safety cage
  51. Appendix 16: Criteria for the site chart (Italy)
  52. Appendix 17: The Three Mile Island accident
  53. Glossary
  54. Web sites
  55. Index