Severe accident progression perspectives based on IPE results

Conference · Thu Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 1996

OSTI ID:266877

Lehner, J R; Lin, C C; Pratt, W T ^[1]; Drouin, M ^[2]

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1. Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY (United States)
2. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, North Bethesda, MD (United States)

Accident progression perspectives were gathered from the level 2 PRA analyses (the analysis of the accident after core damage has occurred involving the containment performance and the radionuclide release from the containment) described in the IPE submittals. Insights related to the containment failure modes, the releases associated with those failure modes, and the factors responsible for the types of containment failures and release sizes reported were obtained. Complete results are discussed in NUREG-1560 and summarized here.

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76CH00016
• OSTI ID: 266877
• Report Number(s): BNL-NUREG-63204; CONF-960912-17; ON: DE96012549; TRN: 96:017105
• Resource Relation: Conference: International topical meeting on probabilistic safety assessment - moving toward risk based regulation, Park City, UT (United States), 29 Sep - 3 Oct 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

22 NUCLEAR REACTOR TECHNOLOGY
21 NUCLEAR POWER REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS
BWR TYPE REACTORS
CONTAINMENT SYSTEMS
CONTAINMENT
PWR TYPE REACTORS
PERFORMANCE
FISSION PRODUCT RELEASE
PROBABILISTIC ESTIMATION