Annual plans of safety research on reactor facilities, etc. (from fiscal year 1976 to 1980)

Due to the recent progress in nuclear power generation, the previous program of safety research on reactor facilities, etc. has been restudied by an ad hoc subcommittee of the Japan AEC. Covering the five-year period from fiscal 1976, the annual plans took up engineering safety research on light water reactor plants and the reduction of release of radioactivity from the fuel reprocessing facility. After explaining the ideas of the program, the safety research works to be performed during the period are described as follows: reactivity accident, loss of coolant accident, light water reactor fuel, structural safety of reactor plants, reduction of radioactivity release, probabilistic safety evaluation, and earthquake endurance of reactor facilities, etc. (Mori, K.)