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Title: Risk Management for Sodium Fast Reactors.

Abstract

Accident management is an important component to maintaining risk at acceptable levels for all complex systems, such as nuclear power plants. With the introduction of self - correcting, or inherently safe, reactor designs the focus has shifted from management by operators to allowing the syste m's design to manage the accident. While inherently and passively safe designs are laudable, extreme boundary conditions can interfere with the design attributes which facilitate inherent safety , thus resulting in unanticipated and undesirable end states. This report examines an inherently safe and small sodium fast reactor experiencing a beyond design basis seismic event with the intend of exploring two issues : (1) can human intervention either improve or worsen the potential end states and (2) can a Bayes ian Network be constructed to infer the state of the reactor to inform (1). ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The author s would like to acknowledge the U.S. Department of E nergy's Office of Nuclear Energy for funding this research through Work Package SR - 14SN100303 under the Advanced Reactor Concepts program. The authors also acknowledge the PRA teams at A rgonne N ational L aborator y , O ak R idge N ational L aborator y , and Imore » daho N ational L aborator y for their continue d contributions to the advanced reactor PRA mission area.« less

Authors:
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  1. Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE), Reactor Fleet and Advanced Reactor Development. Nuclear Reactor Technologies
OSTI Identifier:
1169446
Report Number(s):
SAND2015-0542
562443
DOE Contract Number:  
AC04-94AL85000
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
21 SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS

Citation Formats

Denman, Matthew R., Groth, Katrina, Cardoni, Jeffrey N., and Wheeler, Timothy A. Risk Management for Sodium Fast Reactors.. United States: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.2172/1169446.
Denman, Matthew R., Groth, Katrina, Cardoni, Jeffrey N., & Wheeler, Timothy A. Risk Management for Sodium Fast Reactors.. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1169446
Denman, Matthew R., Groth, Katrina, Cardoni, Jeffrey N., and Wheeler, Timothy A. 2015. "Risk Management for Sodium Fast Reactors.". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1169446. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1169446.
@article{osti_1169446,
title = {Risk Management for Sodium Fast Reactors.},
author = {Denman, Matthew R. and Groth, Katrina and Cardoni, Jeffrey N. and Wheeler, Timothy A.},
abstractNote = {Accident management is an important component to maintaining risk at acceptable levels for all complex systems, such as nuclear power plants. With the introduction of self - correcting, or inherently safe, reactor designs the focus has shifted from management by operators to allowing the syste m's design to manage the accident. While inherently and passively safe designs are laudable, extreme boundary conditions can interfere with the design attributes which facilitate inherent safety , thus resulting in unanticipated and undesirable end states. This report examines an inherently safe and small sodium fast reactor experiencing a beyond design basis seismic event with the intend of exploring two issues : (1) can human intervention either improve or worsen the potential end states and (2) can a Bayes ian Network be constructed to infer the state of the reactor to inform (1). ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The author s would like to acknowledge the U.S. Department of E nergy's Office of Nuclear Energy for funding this research through Work Package SR - 14SN100303 under the Advanced Reactor Concepts program. The authors also acknowledge the PRA teams at A rgonne N ational L aborator y , O ak R idge N ational L aborator y , and I daho N ational L aborator y for their continue d contributions to the advanced reactor PRA mission area.},
doi = {10.2172/1169446},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1169446}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2015},
month = {Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2015}
}