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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission"”.
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MULTI-UNIT ACCIDENT CONTRIBUTIONS TO U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION QUANTITATIVE HEALTH OBJECTIVES: A SAFETY GOAL POLICY ANALYSIS USING MODELS FROM STATE-OF-THE-ART REACTOR CONSEQUENCE ANALYSES
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission implemented a safety goal policy in response to the 1979 Three Mile Island accident. This policy addresses the question “How safe is safe enough?” by specifying quantitative health objectives (QHOs) for comparison with results from nuclear power plant (NPP) …
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Securing nuclear and radiological material in the homeland
… that terrorists view the acquisition of nuclear or radiological materials (NRAM) as a goal in furtherance of their efforts to attack the U.S. within its borders. The use of NRAM in a nuclear weapon of mass destruction (WMD) or a radiological dispersion device (RDD) could potentially kill …
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The use for frequency-consequence curves in future reactor licensing
The licensing of nuclear power plants has focused until now on Light Water Reactors and has not incorporated systematically insights and benefits from Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA). With the goal of making the licensing process more efficient, predictable and stable for advanced reactors, the …
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An Investigation of Major Component Disposal Costs for Advanced Nuclear Reactors
Waste disposal is an important aspect for decommissioning of Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs) that requires an understanding of the characteristics of the waste forms. The costs of disposal depend on the activity, volume, dose rate and waste handling/packaging. The U.S. average nuclear reactor age is 40 …
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Integrating geographic information systems with the Level 3 Probabilistic Risk Assessment of nuclear power plants to advance modeling of socio-technical infrastructure in emergency response applications
… and now is in the process of development for Nuclear Power Plant (NPPs) applications. The goal of this study is to initiate the same paradigm of research for Level 3 PRA. Explicit incorporation of social factors, most specifically location-specific social factors into Level 3 PRA, can …
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Integrated probabilistic risk assessment (I-PRA) methodology and computational platform for fire PRA of nuclear power plants
… systems. PRA has been utilized by both the nuclear industry and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to enhance Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) safety. In resolving emergent regulatory requirements (e.g., the ones created in the aftermath of the Fukushima accident), the existing classical …
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The Lone Star and the atom: Nuclear energy in Texas, 1945-1993
Nuclear energy, since its inception in 1945, has been one the United States' most controversial technologies. Even before the well-publicized incidences at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, nuclear projects encountered a variety of problems and obstacles that decreased their cost-effectiveness. …