Light water reactor safety research
Creators
- 1. Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH Technik und Umwelt (Germany). Koordination Energieforschung
Description
As the technology of light water reactors (LWR) was being commercialized, the German Federal Government funded the reactor safety research program, which was conducted by national research centers, universities, and industry, and which led to the establishment, in early 1972, of the Nuclear Safety Project in Karlsruhe. In the seventies, the PNS project mainly studied the loss-of-coolant accident. Numerous experiments were run and computer codes developed for this purpose. In the eighties, the Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Center contributed to the German Risk Study, investigating especially core meltdown accidents under the impact of the events at Three Mile Island-2 and Chernobyl-4. Safety research in the nineties is concentrated on the requirements of future reactor generations, such as the European Pressurized Water Reactor (EPR) or potential approaches which, at the present time, are discernible only as tentative theoretical designs. (orig.)
Abstract (German)
Im Zuge der Kommerzialisierung der Leichtwasserreaktor(LWR)-Technik foerderte die Bundesregierung das Reaktorsicherheitsforschungsprogramm, das von Grossforschungszentren, Universitaeten und Industrie umgesetzt wurden und Anfang 1972 zur Gruendung des Projektes Nucleare Sicherheit in Karlsruhe fuehrte. In den siebziger Jahren untersuchte das PNS vor allem den Kuehlmittelverluststoerfall. Dazu wurden zahlreiche Experimente durchgefuehrt und Rechenmodelle entwickelt. Die achtziger Jahre standen im Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe im Zeichen von Beitraegen zur Deutschen Risikostudie, wobei unter dem Eindruck der Unfaelle in Three Mile Island-2 und Tschernobyl-4 insbesondere der Beherrschung von Kernschmelzunfaellen nachgegangen wurde. Die Sicherheitsforschung der neunziger Jahre konzentriert sich auf Anforderungen zukuenftiger Reaktorgenerationen wie des European Pressurized Water Reactor (EPR) oder moeglicher, heute lediglich theoretisch erkennbarer Ansaetze. (orig.)Additional details
Additional titles
- Original title (German)
- Leichtwasserreaktor-Sicherheitsforschung
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Atw. Internationale Zeitschrift fuer Kernenergie
- Journal Volume
- 41
- Journal Issue
- 12
- Journal Page Range
- p. 783-788.
- ISSN
- 1431-5254
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Germany
- Country of Input or Organization
- Germany
- INIS RN
- 28018807
- Subject category
- S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS; S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
- Descriptors DEI
- BWR TYPE REACTORS; COORDINATED RESEARCH PROGRAMS; FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM KARLSRUHE; LOSS OF COOLANT; MELTDOWN; NUCLEAR INDUSTRY; PWR TYPE REACTORS; REACTOR SAFETY; REACTOR SAFETY EXPERIMENTS
- Descriptors DEC
- ACCIDENTS; ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS; GERMAN FR ORGANIZATIONS; INDUSTRY; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; POWER REACTORS; REACTOR ACCIDENTS; REACTORS; RESEARCH PROGRAMS; SAFETY; THERMAL REACTORS; WATER COOLED REACTORS; WATER MODERATED REACTORS