Earthquake ground motions for a NPP in eastern Canada
Creators
- 1. Civil Engineering, Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., CANDU Operations, Mississauga, Ontario
Description
A site specific seismic risk analysis was performed for the Point Lepreau-2 Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) located in Eastern Canada. The Design Basis Seismic Ground Motions (DBSGM) were determined using both deterministic and probabilistic approaches that utilized all available information on historical seismicity, geology and tectonics. Calculations to obtain ground accelerations and velocities were performed using three seismotectonic models; each representing a different zoning approach for Eastern Canada, and the results were developed for different risk levels. Based on the results of the analyses, a Design Basis Earthquake Ground Motion of 0.2 g acceleration and 14.2 cm/s velocity is proposed. The sensitivity of the results to variations in the different input parameters is investigated
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Publisher
- Earthquake Engineering Research Institute.
- Imprint Place
- El Cerrito, CA (USA)
- ISBN
- 0-943198-07-0
- Imprint Title
- Proceedings of the third U.S. national conference on earthquake engineering. Volume 1
- Journal Page Range
- p. 427-438.
Conference
- Title
- 3. U.S. national conference on earthquake engineering.
- Dates
- 24-28 Aug 1986.
- Place
- Charleston, SC (USA).
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 18057684
- Subject category
- S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- ACCELERATION; CANADA; EARTHQUAKES; GEOLOGIC FAULTS; GEOLOGIC HISTORY; GROUND MOTION; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; PHASE VELOCITY; POINT LEPREAU-2 REACTOR; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEISMIC EFFECTS; SEISMIC WAVES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TECTONICS
- Descriptors DEC
- CANDU TYPE REACTORS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; GEOLOGIC FRACTURES; GEOLOGIC STRUCTURES; HEAVY WATER COOLED REACTORS; HEAVY WATER MODERATED REACTORS; MOTION; NATURAL URANIUM REACTORS; NORTH AMERICA; NUCLEAR FACILITIES; PHWR TYPE REACTORS; POWER PLANTS; POWER REACTORS; PRESSURE TUBE REACTORS; REACTORS; THERMAL POWER PLANTS; THERMAL REACTORS; VELOCITY