Deriving and applying generally applicable safety principles
The nuclear detonation safety of modern nuclear weapons depends on a coordinated safety theme incorporating three general safety principles: isolation, inoperability, and incompatibility. The success of this approach has encouraged them to study whether these and/or other principles might be useful in other applications. Not surprisingly, no additional first-principles (based on physical laws) have been identified. However, a more widely applicable definition and application of the principle-based approach has been developed, resulting in a selection of strategies that are basically subsets and varied combinations of the more general principles above. However, identification of principles to be relied on is only one step in providing a safe design. As one other important example, coordinating overall architecture and strategy is essential: the authors term this a safety theme.
- Research Organization:
- Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC04-94AL85000
- OSTI ID:
- 656751
- Report Number(s):
- SAND-98-1590C-Pt.1; CONF-980910-; ON: DE98007121; BR: YN0100000; TRN: AHC29817%%309
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 16. international system safety conference, Seattle, WA (United States), 14-19 Sep 1998; Other Information: PBD: [1998]
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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