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Impact of the Three Mile Island accident on research and development programs
Description
The influence of the Three Mile Island (TMI) accident, on the evolution of the nuclear safety engineering concepts, are analyzed. An overview of the nuclear safety studies performed before and after the accident is presented. Before the TMI accident, the research programs were mainly centered on dimensional problems involving factors, such as explosions and earthquakes. The TMI accident demonstrated that the fusion of the reactor's core could actually hoppen. It was also realized that the safety of nuclear power plants depended on accurate research programs, also extended to factors beyond dimensional analysis
Availability note (English)
MF available from INIS under the Report Number.Abstract (French)
L'analyse, centree sur l'accident survenu a Three Mile Island (TMI), permet d'evaluer l'influence de celui-ci sur les etudes de la securite des parks nucleaires et, egalement, d'effectuer un bilan de l'evolution des concepts de securite avant et apres l'accident. Les programmes de recherche, anterieurs a l'accident etaient principalement diriges sur des problemes de dimensionnement poses par des agressions d'origine externe (seismes, explosions). L'accident de TMI a montre que la fusion du coeur du reacteur pouvait reellement se produire et que la surete de centrales etait, en grande partie, liee a un effort de recherche au-dela du dimensionnelFiles
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Additional details
Additional titles
- Original title (French)
- Impact de l'accident de Three Mile Island sur les programmes de recherche et developpement
Publishing Information
- Imprint Pagination
- 29 p.
- Report number
- CEA-DAS--651
Conference
- Title
- SFEN workshop on Three Mile Island accident ten years after.
- Original Conference Title
- Journee SFEN sur l'accident de Three Mile Island: un bilan 10 ans apres
- Dates
- 30 May 1989.
- Place
- Paris (France).
INIS
- Country of Publication
- France
- Country of Input or Organization
- France
- INIS RN
- 22015980
- Subject category
- S61: RADIATION PROTECTION AND DOSIMETRY; S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- EMERGENCY PLANS; MISSILE PROTECTION; REACTOR ACCIDENTS; REACTOR CORE DISRUPTION; REACTOR CORES; REACTOR PROTECTION SYSTEMS; REACTOR SAFETY; REACTOR TECHNOLOGY; SAFETY ENGINEERING; THREE MILE ISLAND-2 REACTOR
- Descriptors DEC
- ACCIDENTS; ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS; POWER REACTORS; PWR TYPE REACTORS; REACTOR COMPONENTS; REACTORS; SAFETY; THERMAL REACTORS; WATER COOLED REACTORS; WATER MODERATED REACTORS