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Loffler, H.; Sonnenkalb, M.
Gesellschaft fuer Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit mbH (GRS), Braunschweig (Germany); Institut de Radioprotection et de Surete Nucleaire (IRSN), 92 - Fontenay-aux-Roses (France)2006
Gesellschaft fuer Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit mbH (GRS), Braunschweig (Germany); Institut de Radioprotection et de Surete Nucleaire (IRSN), 92 - Fontenay-aux-Roses (France)2006
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[en] On behalf of the federal Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation and Reactor Safety (BMU) GRS has performed a PSA level 2 for a BWR type 69 NPP of the 900 MWe class, equipped with a N2 inerted steel containment and a pressure suppression system. Integral deterministic accident analyses have been performed with the computer code MELCOR 1.8.5. Additional analyses have been done for those events and phenomena which are not or not sufficiently covered by MELCOR. The probabilistic event tree analysis begins with the core damage states received from PSA level 1, and it ends with the definition of release categories and the determination of their frequencies. Uncertainties about the frequency of core damage states and about events during the accident progression are taken into account by means of Monte Carlo simulations. If there is a core damage state there is a high probability (>50 %) for a very high and rapid release of radionuclides into the environment. This high conditional probability is due to the very low probability to retain a partly destroyed core inside the reactor pressure vessel (RPV) and because the containment almost certainly fails at the bottom of the control rod drives room after melt release from the failed RPV. (authors)
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2006; 13 p; Eurosafe 2006 radioactive waste management: long term safety requirements and societal expectations; Paris (France); 13-14 Nov 2006; This record relates to INIS-FR--5828. 7 refs.
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ACCIDENTS, BUILDINGS, CALCULATION METHODS, COMPUTER CODES, CONTAINMENT, ELEMENTS, ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS, FLUID MECHANICS, HYDRAULICS, MATHEMATICAL MODELS, MECHANICS, NONMETALS, POWER REACTORS, REACTOR ACCIDENTS, REACTORS, SAFETY, SIMULATION, SYSTEM FAILURE ANALYSIS, SYSTEMS ANALYSIS, THERMAL REACTORS, WATER COOLED REACTORS, WATER MODERATED REACTORS
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