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Title: Accident management then and now: Progress since Di Salvo's work

Abstract

The nuclear industry is now initiating a serious effort to define the elements of an accident management program at each utility with an operating reactor, which is a significant change in conditions from those in 1985, when the work of Di Salvo et al. was published. Each utility is now conducting an individual plant examination (IPE) to uncover plant vulnerabilities to severe accidents. In conjunction with the IPE program, the Nuclear Utility Management and Resources committee, the Electric Power Research Institute, and owners' groups are developing an accident management program. This program is emphasizing the management program. This program is emphasizing the management of severe accidents (i.e., accidents that proceed to significant core melt) including strategies for managing ex-vessel events. Attention is also being paid to interfacing any severe accident management strategies with existing emergency operating procedures already in place at utilities. The industry program is addressing the five elements define by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC): (1) strategies; (2) instrumentation; (3) guidance and computational aids; (4) organization and decision making; and (5) training. It will also be able to accept new information as it becomes available from ongoing efforts to better understand severe accidents and how to managemore » them effectively.« less

Authors:
Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
7022298
Report Number(s):
CONF-911107-
Journal ID: ISSN 0003-018X; CODEN: TANSA; TRN: 92-030820
Resource Type:
Conference
Journal Name:
Transactions of the American Nuclear Society; (United States)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 63; Conference: 1991 Winter meeting of the American Nuclear Society (ANS) session on fundamentals of fusion reactor thermal hydraulics, San Francisco, CA (United States), 10-15 Nov 1991; Journal ID: ISSN 0003-018X
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
22 GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS; 21 SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS; BWR TYPE REACTORS; REACTOR ACCIDENTS; PWR TYPE REACTORS; MITIGATION; CONTAINMENT SPRAY SYSTEMS; CONTAINMENT SYSTEMS; DECISION MAKING; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; EMERGENCY PLANS; EPRI; HUMAN FACTORS; MANAGEMENT; NUCLEAR POWER; PRESSURE VESSELS; PRIMARY COOLANT CIRCUITS; REACTOR CORE DISRUPTION; REACTOR INSTRUMENTATION; REACTOR OPERATION; REACTOR OPERATORS; RESEARCH PROGRAMS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RUPTURES; STEAM GENERATORS; TRAINING; TUBES; US NRC; ACCIDENTS; ANIMALS; BOILERS; CONTAINERS; CONTAINMENT; COOLING SYSTEMS; EDUCATION; ENGINEERED SAFETY SYSTEMS; ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS; FAILURES; MAMMALS; MAN; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; OPERATION; PERSONNEL; POWER; POWER REACTORS; PRIMATES; PUBLIC UTILITIES; REACTOR COMPONENTS; REACTOR COOLING SYSTEMS; REACTORS; THERMAL REACTORS; US ORGANIZATIONS; VAPOR GENERATORS; VERTEBRATES; WATER COOLED REACTORS; WATER MODERATED REACTORS; 220900* - Nuclear Reactor Technology- Reactor Safety; 210100 - Power Reactors, Nonbreeding, Light-Water Moderated, Boiling Water Cooled; 210200 - Power Reactors, Nonbreeding, Light-Water Moderated, Nonboiling Water Cooled

Citation Formats

Shotkin, L M. Accident management then and now: Progress since Di Salvo's work. United States: N. p., 1991. Web.
Shotkin, L M. Accident management then and now: Progress since Di Salvo's work. United States.
Shotkin, L M. 1991. "Accident management then and now: Progress since Di Salvo's work". United States.
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abstractNote = {The nuclear industry is now initiating a serious effort to define the elements of an accident management program at each utility with an operating reactor, which is a significant change in conditions from those in 1985, when the work of Di Salvo et al. was published. Each utility is now conducting an individual plant examination (IPE) to uncover plant vulnerabilities to severe accidents. In conjunction with the IPE program, the Nuclear Utility Management and Resources committee, the Electric Power Research Institute, and owners' groups are developing an accident management program. This program is emphasizing the management program. This program is emphasizing the management of severe accidents (i.e., accidents that proceed to significant core melt) including strategies for managing ex-vessel events. Attention is also being paid to interfacing any severe accident management strategies with existing emergency operating procedures already in place at utilities. The industry program is addressing the five elements define by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC): (1) strategies; (2) instrumentation; (3) guidance and computational aids; (4) organization and decision making; and (5) training. It will also be able to accept new information as it becomes available from ongoing efforts to better understand severe accidents and how to manage them effectively.},
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year = {Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1991},
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