On the safety of nuclear power plants

IF 2.1 3区工程技术 Q1 NUCLEAR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Nuclear Engineering and Design Pub Date : 1989-06-01 DOI:10.1016/0029-5493(89)90188-X

L.V. Konstantinov

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Abstract

By the end of 1987 the number of nucler power plants operated worldwide exceeded 400 units and the amount of reactor operation years went over 4500. Under normal operating conditions the nuclear power sources do not release any amounts of radioactive products to the environment harmful to the public health. However, as for any other engineered installation, analyses are to be made of situations that could occur in case of a potential accident.

The paper described both the deterministic and the probabilistic approaches applied to these analyses. Within others, typical listings for the compilation of postulated initiating events for a possible accident are shown and the use of the IAEA Safety Codes and Guides is explained.

The IAEA is contributing to improving operational safety worldwide by means of its Operational Safety Review Teams (OSARTs) and provides also for the international exchange of experience by the feedback of the established Incident Reporting System (IRS) but this is not discussed in detail in the paper.

Expected developments in nuclear safety are discussed in the concluding part of the paper.

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关于核电站的安全问题

到1987年底，全世界运行的核电站超过400座，反应堆运行年数超过4500年。在正常运行条件下，核动力源不会向环境释放危害公众健康的放射性物质。但是，对于任何其他工程装置，都要对潜在事故发生时可能发生的情况进行分析。本文描述了用于这些分析的确定性方法和概率方法。在其他文件中，列出了汇编可能发生事故的假定启动事件的典型清单，并解释了原子能机构安全守则和指南的使用。原子能机构正在通过其运行安全审查小组(OSARTs)为改善全世界的运行安全作出贡献，并通过已建立的事件报告系统(IRS)的反馈提供国际经验交流，但本文没有详细讨论这一点。本文的结语部分讨论了核安全的预期发展。

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Nuclear Engineering and Design 工程技术-核科学技术

CiteScore

3.40

自引率

11.80%

发文量

377

审稿时长

5 months

期刊介绍： Nuclear Engineering and Design covers the wide range of disciplines involved in the engineering, design, safety and construction of nuclear fission reactors. The Editors welcome papers both on applied and innovative aspects and developments in nuclear science and technology. Fundamentals of Reactor Design include: • Thermal-Hydraulics and Core Physics • Safety Analysis, Risk Assessment (PSA) • Structural and Mechanical Engineering • Materials Science • Fuel Behavior and Design • Structural Plant Design • Engineering of Reactor Components • Experiments Aspects beyond fundamentals of Reactor Design covered: • Accident Mitigation Measures • Reactor Control Systems • Licensing Issues • Safeguard Engineering • Economy of Plants • Reprocessing / Waste Disposal • Applications of Nuclear Energy • Maintenance • Decommissioning Papers on new reactor ideas and developments (Generation IV reactors) such as inherently safe modular HTRs, High Performance LWRs/HWRs and LMFBs/GFR will be considered; Actinide Burners, Accelerator Driven Systems, Energy Amplifiers and other special designs of power and research reactors and their applications are also encouraged.