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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

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...

Nuclear power plants: Using PSA to enhance operational safety

Developed as a logical extension of the old engineering discipline of reliability analysis, probabilistic safety assessment (PSA) was introduced in the commercial nuclear power field in the mid-1970s. To date, more than 70 PSAs have been carried out worldwide for nuclear power plants. The studies provide safety insights that could not have been obtained by other means. In most countries with nu...