Designing for post-accident radiological conditions

Technical Report · Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 1980

OSTI ID:5832525

Lahti, G P; Brtis, J S; Davidson, G R; Gill, C F

Nuclear power plant design efforts have previously tacitly assumed that in the event of an accident, all actions necessary to bring the plant to a cold shutdown could be accomplished from a well-protected control room. However, the incident at Three Mile Island, Unit 2 (TMI-2), showed that access to the balance-of-plant is desirable, and perhaps even necessary, to determine the past and future course of an accident and its consequences. The present report reviews the in-plant radiological consequences of the TMI-2 accident and formulates radiation protection design criteria for the balance-of-plant which would minimize post-accident in-plant radiation exposure.

• Research Organization: Sargent and Lundy, Chicago, IL (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5832525
• Report Number(s): EPRI-NSAC-17; ON: DE82901459; TRN: 82-000571
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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