Severe Accidents as the Dominant Nuclear Hazard

Hazard Assessment for Pressure Tank Cars involved in Accidents

In the event of an accident or derailment involving a freight train, various personnel must respond to clear the rightof-way, repair the tracks, and remove the damaged rail cars. If the train contains pressure tank cars, the potential hazard needs to be assessed and safe handling procedures need to be followed. Since 1985, the Association of American Railroads, Transportation Technology Center ...

Solving coupled problems of lumped parameter models in a platform for severe accidents in nuclear reactors

This paper focuses on solving coupled problems of lumped parameter models. Such problems are of interest for the simulation of severe accidents in nuclear reactors : these coarse-grained models allow for fast calculations for statistical analysis used for risk assessment and solutions of large problems when considering the whole severe accident scenario. However, this modeling approach has seve...

Alternative evacuation strategies for nuclear power accidents

In the U.S., current protective-action strategies to safeguard the public following a nuclear power accident have remained largely unchanged since their implementation in the early 1980s. In the past thirty years, new technologies have been introduced, allowing faster computations, better modeling of predicted radiological consequences, and improved accident mapping using geographic information...

Accidents in a nuclear power reactor operation.

Nuclear Industry Organizations: Shaped by Accidents

This paper introduces the concept of the VSM method being used to represent the organization of NPPs in responding to accidents. The Fukushima accident is addressed as a method for the examination of the VSM method and its utility is seeing the ‘big’ picture as far as the decision-making aspects of organizations are concerned. The impact of accidents upon the NPP management operations is covere...