Follow - on activities to the Swedish severe accident mitigation program

Conference · Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1992 · Transactions of the American Nuclear Society; (United States)

OSTI ID:5947369

Lowenhielm, G; Espefalt, R ^[1]; Soderman, E ^[2]

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1. Swedish State Power Board, Vallingby (Switzerland)
2. ES-Konsult, Bromma (Switzerland)

Due to the government requirements severe accident mitigating measures were implemented at Barseback nuclear power plant in 1985 and at the other Swedish nuclear power plants in 1988. For the latter plants these measures included protection against early containment impairment, highly redundant containment spray and filtered venting of the containment. Accident management strategies and corresponding documents were developed to counteract a severe accident situation. This document describes accident management strategies at Swedish nuclear power plants and our ongoing program for further development of the accident management program. Also ongoing research concerning phenomenological issues, such as direct containment heating, hydrogen deflagration and corium coolability is presented.

• OSTI ID: 5947369
• Report Number(s): CONF-920414-; CODEN: TANSAO; TRN: 93-022646
• Journal Information: Transactions of the American Nuclear Society; (United States), Vol. 65; Conference: 8. Pacific basin nuclear conference, Taipei (China), 12-16 Apr 1992; ISSN 0003-018X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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