Published 1983 | Version v1
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An assessment of core melt accidents in the Limerick facility: Chapter 10

Creators

  • 1. Dept. of Nuclear Energy, Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY 11973

Description

This paper presents an evaluation of postulated core meltdown accidents in the Limerick Generating Station (LGS). It is restricted to an assessment of core meltdown phenomena and the determination of potential fission product releases. The study concludes that transient events with loss-of-coolant make-up have the largest contribution to long-term health effects. In addition, a limited uncertainty analysis was performed, which indicates that core meltdown phenomena have a significant influence on the the overall uncertainty associated with the estimation of risk

Additional details

Publishing Information

Publisher
American Nuclear Society.
Imprint Place
LaGrange Park, IL (USA)
ISBN
0-89448-112-6
Imprint Title
Proceedings of the international meeting on light water severe accident evaluation
Journal Page Range
p. 4.1-4.7.

Conference

Title
International meeting on light-water reactor severe accident evaluation.
Dates
28 Aug - 1 Sep 1983.
Place
Cambridge, MA (USA).

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
18014473
Subject category
S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; DATA COVARIANCES; FISSION PRODUCT RELEASE; LIMERICK-1 REACTOR; LIMERICK-2 REACTOR; LOSS OF COOLANT; MELTDOWN; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRANSIENTS
Descriptors DEC
ACCIDENTS; BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; BWR TYPE REACTORS; ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS; POWER REACTORS; RADIATION EFFECTS; REACTOR ACCIDENTS; REACTORS; THERMAL REACTORS; WATER COOLED REACTORS; WATER MODERATED REACTORS