Risk in nuclear power plants due to natural hazard phenomena

Book · Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 1995

OSTI ID:129000

Lu, S C ^[1]

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1. Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States)

For the safety of nuclear power plants, it is important to identify potential areas of vulnerabilities to internal as well as external events to which nuclear power plants are exposed. This paper summarizes the risk in nuclear power plants due to natural hazard phenomena such as earthquakes, winds and tornadoes, floods, etc. The reported results are based on a limited number of probabilistic risk assessments (PRAS) performed for a few of the operating nuclear power plants within the United States. The summary includes an importance ranking of various natural hazard phenomena based on their contribution to the plant risk along with insights observed from the PRA studies.

• OSTI ID: 129000
• Report Number(s): CONF-950740-; ISBN 0-7918-1339-8; TRN: IM9550%%368
• Resource Relation: Conference: Joint American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)/Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME) pressure vessels and piping conference, Honolulu, HI (United States), 23-27 Jul 1995; Other Information: PBD: 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of Natural hazard phenomena and mitigation -- 1995; PVP-Volume 308. DOE facilities programs/design criteria and methods for: Impact, wave, high frequency, and seismic loads; Lin, C.W. [ed.] [Lin (Chi-Wen), Martinez, CA (United States)]; Wang, C.Y [ed.] [Argonne National Lab., IL (United States)]; Chang, S.J. [ed.] [Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States)]; Chen, W.W. [ed.] [Westinghouse Hanford Co., Richland, WA (United States)]; Mok, G.C.; Murray, R.C. [eds.] [Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States)]; PB: 461 p.
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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RISK ASSESSMENT
SEISMIC EVENTS
PROBABILISTIC ESTIMATION
US NRC
FIRE HAZARDS
REACTOR CORES
DAMAGE
EXPERIMENTAL DATA