Licensing and accident reviews for an HNEC

Technical Report · Fri Sep 01 04:00:00 EDT 1978

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6561429· OSTI ID:6561429

Clark, R. G.

The purpose of this review was to identify siting or other concerns that may indicate limitations on the ability to license a nuclear energy center at Hanford. Several studies on nuclear energy centers have been completed and some have included licensing (regulatory) aspects of siting nuclear power centers. This review however, was primarily to identify any limitations that may affect licensing specifically at an HNEC. The scope included examining existing criteria for siting nuclear facilities, including single reactor and multireactor (multi-unit) sites. To fill a void in other analyses and to gain some perspective on another impact of an HNEC, the scope was extended to analyze the consequences within the HNEC, of a class nine accident at a unit at one site. A predictive model utilized in this analysis was developed from meteorological parameters based on thirty years of meteorological records at Hanford. From this analysis, additional perspective was developed on the relative severity of the effects of rare events, both man made and from unstable conditions in nature, on the operation of (and the ability to license) an energy center at Hanford (HNEC).

• Research Organization: Battelle Pacific Northwest Labs., Richland, WA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: EY-76-C-06-1830
• OSTI ID: 6561429
• Report Number(s): PNL-2077
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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