Analysis of Differences in Fuel Safety Criteria for WWER and Western PWR Nuclear Power Plants


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This report captures the common features and differences between Western PWR and WWER fuel, and may serve as a general basis for the sefety evaluation of these fuels. Therefore, it should be very beneficial for PWR and WWER licensing activities, as it focuses on the issues of importance for the review of fuel safety cases.




Analysis of Differences in Fuel Safety Criteria for WWER and Western PWR Nuclear Power Plants. IAEA TECDOC Series


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This report captures the common features and differences between Western PWR and WWER fuel, and may serve as a general basis for the safety evaluation of these fuels. Therefore, it should be very beneficial for PWR and WWER licensing activities, as it focuses on the issues of importance for the review of fuel safety cases.




Thermal and Reliability Criteria for Nuclear Fuel Safety


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The book covers basic approaches to the nuclear fuel state of energy reactors in the last stages of the nuclear fuel cycle, these have been developed by the authors based on Ukrainian Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) operational experience. The book starts by looking at the physical safety basis of water-water energetic reactor (WWER) nuclear fuel. It goes on to discuss modern approaches to the heat exchange modelling in nuclear power plant equipment. Next, the safety criteria when making a decision about dry storage for WWER-1000 fuel assembly are discussed. Then the effect of reactor capacity cyclic changes on energy accumulation of creep formations in fuel cladding is covered in full, along with a chapter on the analysis of WWER-1000 fuel cladding failure. Finally, the book finishes with a description of thermal safety criteria for dry storage of spent nuclear fuel. The book is essential reading for anyone concerned with NPP maintenance and safety.




Nuclear Fuel Safety Criteria


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Presents brief descriptions of 20 fuel-related safety criteria along with both the rationale for having such criteria and possible new design and operational issues which could have an effect on them.







Nuclear Safety


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Design-basis Accident Analysis Methods For Light-water Nuclear Power Plants


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This book captures the principles of safety evaluation as practiced in the regulated light-water reactor nuclear industry, as established and stabilized over the last 30 years. It is expected to serve both the current industry and those planning for the future. The work's coverage of the subject matter is the broadest to date, including not only the common topics of modeling and simulation, but also methods supporting the basis for the underlying assumptions, the extension to radiological safety, what to expect in a licensing review, historical perspectives and the implication for new designs.This text is an essential resource for practitioners and students, on the current best-practices in nuclear power plant safety and their basis. Contributors of this work are subject matter experts in their specialties, much of which was nurtured and inspired by Prof. Larry Hochreiter, a prominent nuclear safety pioneer.Related Link(s)