Published February 1983 | Version v1
Report

Analysis of station blackout accidents for LWRs

  • 1. Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM

Description

Station blackout, the loss of all AC power in a nuclear power plant is a Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) unresolved safety issue. This paper summarizes station blackout accident sequence analyses conducted as part of a plan to resolve this issue. The results covered include: (a) core damage probabilities for four generic classes of plants, (b) factors most affecting these probabilities, (c) containment failure insights, and (d) examples of sensitivity analyses to cover other variations of plant design

Additional details

Publishing Information

Imprint Title
Proceedings of the international meeting on thermal nuclear reactor safety. Vol. 1
Journal Page Range
p. 511-520.
Report number
NUREG/CP--0027-Vol.1

Conference

Title
International meeting on thermal nuclear reactor safety (ANS topical meeting).
Dates
29 Aug - 2 Sep 1982.
Place
Chicago, IL (USA).