S. TINA GHOSH and GEORGE E. APOSTOLAKIS US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards Mail Stop: T-7F27 Washington, DC 20555, USA Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, and Engineering Systems Division 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Room 24-221, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, USA Corresponding author. E-mail : [email protected]...

A. Stohl, P. Seibert, G. Wotawa, D. Arnold , J. F. Burkhart, S. Eckhardt, C. Tapia, A. Vargas, and T. J. Yasunari NILU – Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Kjeller, Norway Institute of Meteorology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics, Vienna, Austria Institute of Energy Technologies (INTE), Technical University ...

AIMS The aims of this paper were to determine the level of knowledge of and attitude to nuclear power among residents around Tianwan Nuclear power plant in Jiangsu of China. DESIGN A descriptive, cross-sectional design was adopted. PARTICIPANTS 1,616 eligible participants who lived around the Tianwan nuclear power plant within a radius of 30km and at least 18 years old were recruited into o...

The concern of risk management has continuously increased in international construction projects. International projects have a high level of risk and complexity, which results in greater possibilities of cost overruns and schedule conflicts when compared with local projects. Therefore, the goal of risk management is to improve project performance by systematically identifying and assessing pro...

In this research, called the “the maintenance index,” was proposed to evaluate the reliability of nuclear power plant safety systems by taking into account periodic maintenance of the systems. The change in reliability as a result of changing activity is estimated by this index. The Maintenance Index offers a more comprehensive evaluation of nuclear power plant safety. * Corresponding author, E...

Safety of the personnel of a nuclear power plant (NPP) and the environment around the plant should be ensured against all natural hazards including earthquakes. With public safety as the paramount concern, NPP facilities are designed to withstand low-probability, high-magnitude earthquakes. In this paper, details are discussed regarding the evolution of seismic analysis and design aspects of nu...