Published February 1983
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Report
Severe accident trends in light water reactors
Description
An analysis is presented of key phenomena and scenarios which imply some general trends for beyond-design-basis accidents in light water reactors. This analysis is based on the insights gained from studies performed over the past three years at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), on pressurized water reactors with large dry or ice condenser containments and of boiling water reactors - with Mark II or mark III containments. This analysis relies on: (1) extensive use of the MARCH code and improvements to the code made at BNL; and on (2) additional phenomenological evaluations which are not currently addressable within the context of the MARCH code
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Imprint Title
- Proceedings on the international meeting on thermal nuclear reactor safety. Vol. 3
- Journal Page Range
- p. 1854-1863.
- Report number
- NUREG/CP--0027-Vol.3
Conference
- Title
- International meeting on thermal nuclear reactor safety (ANS topical meeting).
- Dates
- 29 Aug - 2 Sep 1982.
- Place
- Chicago, IL (USA).
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 14792483
- Subject category
- S61: RADIATION PROTECTION AND DOSIMETRY; S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS; S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- BWR TYPE REACTORS; CONTAINMENT BUILDINGS; PRESSURE GRADIENTS; PWR TYPE REACTORS; REACTOR ACCIDENTS; REACTOR SAFETY; RISK ANALYSIS; STRESS ANALYSIS
- Descriptors DEC
- ACCIDENTS; CONTAINMENT; REACTORS; SAFETY; WATER COOLED REACTORS; WATER MODERATED REACTORS