Some implications of the Three Mile Island accident for LMFBR safety and licensing: the design basis issue
Description
The 1979 accident at the Three Mile Island-Unit 2 (TMI-2) nuclear generating plant prompted numerous studies identifying relevant safety issues and recommending both short term and long term fixes to improve the general safety of the light water reactor (LWR). One of the major safety issues which has evolved from the Action Plan of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) Task Force investigations concerns the use of the design basis accident (DBA) in the licensing process. The DBA is an artificial boundary separating those credible accidents which are considered in the licensing process from those incredible ones which are not. While these recommendations focus on current light water reactors, they will also affect design and operation of the liquid metal fast breeder reactor (LMFBR). This Note assesses the impact of the TMI-2 accident on the LMFBR
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MF available from INIS under the Report Number; Available from NTIS., PC A03/MF A01 as DE82009276.
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Publishing Information
- Imprint Pagination
- 48 p.
- Report number
- RAND/N--1559-DOE
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 14724121
- Subject category
- S61: RADIATION PROTECTION AND DOSIMETRY; S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS; S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
- Descriptors DEI
- DESIGN BASIS ACCIDENTS; LMFBR TYPE REACTORS; REACTOR SAFETY; THREE MILE ISLAND-2 REACTOR
- Descriptors DEC
- ACCIDENTS; BREEDER REACTORS; ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS; EPITHERMAL REACTORS; FAST REACTORS; FBR TYPE REACTORS; LIQUID METAL COOLED REACTORS; POWER REACTORS; PWR TYPE REACTORS; REACTOR ACCIDENTS; REACTORS; SAFETY; THERMAL REACTORS; WATER COOLED REACTORS; WATER MODERATED REACTORS