{"title":"Influence of safety problems on the development of economic nuclear power","authors":"Harold E. Vann","doi":"10.1016/0369-5816(65)90074-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/0369-5816(65)90074-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The subjects presented in this paper are: The economic status of nuclear-fueled plants; the cost associated with reactor safety; the effects of plant siting on cost; and the economic risk in constructing nuclear plants. The purpose of this presenteation is to provide some indication of the economic significance of the judgments that must be made on the interrelation of reactor safety, plant siting and the economics of nuclear plants.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100973,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Structural Engineering","volume":"2 5","pages":"Pages 475-482"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1965-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0369-5816(65)90074-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91613257","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Containment and siting of high power reactors","authors":"V. V. Shirvaikar, A. Ganguly","doi":"10.1016/0369-5816(65)90075-X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/0369-5816(65)90075-X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100973,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Structural Engineering","volume":"15 1","pages":"483-489"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1965-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82768487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Die friedliche anwendung von nuklearen explosionen: by Dr. Theo Ginsburg. Thiemig Taschenbuch Band 21. Verlag Karl Thiemig KG, München (1965), 240 pages. Price: DM 14.80","authors":"Glenn S. Murphy","doi":"10.1016/0369-5816(65)90078-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/0369-5816(65)90078-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100973,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Structural Engineering","volume":"1 7 1","pages":"501"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1965-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82964704","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Measurement of moisture in concrete and masonry with special reference to neutron scattering techniques","authors":"E. Waters","doi":"10.1016/0369-5816(65)90077-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/0369-5816(65)90077-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100973,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Structural Engineering","volume":"13 1","pages":"494-500"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1965-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73693868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An assessment of reactor safety modelling techniques based on the accident to the SL-1 boiling water reactor","authors":"G.R. Warren, T.W. Rice","doi":"10.1016/0369-5816(65)90076-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/0369-5816(65)90076-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Scale model tests carried out in order to find the effect of rapid changes in pressure on water filled pressure vessels are described. To simulate the time scale of a desctructive nuclear excursion in a water moderated reactor electrically exploded foils are used. The SL-1 reactor accident gave the opportunity to see whether the modelling techniques can be used with confidence. The results obtained from a relevant model test proved to be in close accordance with the full scale effects found during the SL-1 accident.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100973,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Structural Engineering","volume":"2 5","pages":"Pages 490-493"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1965-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0369-5816(65)90076-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91637154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Containment and siting of high power reactors","authors":"V.V. Shirvaikar, A.K. Ganguly","doi":"10.1016/0369-5816(65)90075-X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/0369-5816(65)90075-X","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Developing technology has made it feasible to construct power reactors of a few thousand MWt capacity. The problems of siting such very high power reactors are different from those encountered in siting of reactors of a few hundred MWt capacity.</p><p>Environmental safety in the case of very high power reactors (say 10 000 MWt) can no longer be ensured through taller stacks or large exclusion distances. It has to be provided through engineered safeguards by improved containment of induced gaseous activity during normal operation and of noble gas and volatile fission products in the event of a serious accident and core melt. No single containment system such as pressure, low pressure, pressure suppression, pressure relief, negative pressure, multiple barrier or underground is adequate. A judicious combination of high integrity containment with auxiliary safeguards such as core cooling and building spray may be considered a step in the right direction.</p><p>Containment of liquid wastes generated in an MCA and containing highly radiotoxic fission products is a serious problem for desalination reactors which are the large sources of water used over extensive areas for irrigation industry and drinking purposes.</p><p>In this paper, the concept of ARE (acceptable release in emergency) has been used to assess the requirements of containment capability of very high power reactors and their siting problems.</p><p>The dose levels due to release of fission products in the containment are given. From the safety point of view no more than one high power reactor should be located within the exclusion radius for a reactor, so that MCA to one of them does not jeopardise the operation of the other reactors.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100973,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Structural Engineering","volume":"2 5","pages":"Pages 483-489"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1965-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0369-5816(65)90075-X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91637153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Measurement of moisture in concrete and masonry with special reference to neutron scattering techniques","authors":"E.H. Waters","doi":"10.1016/0369-5816(65)90077-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/0369-5816(65)90077-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Failures of surfacing materials on concrete floors (likewise on concrete or masonry walls) are usually due to dampness. A rapid and reliable method of determining the dryness of such structures could prevent this type of failure.</p><p>Present methods depend on conditions in the atmosphere adjacent to the floor etc. (indirect methods) or on changes in the properties of the concrete (direct methods). Indirect methods can be satisfactory if their criteria of dryness are soundly based. A well based procedure is the quasi-equilibrium method of British Standard C.P. 203, which has a long history of successful field use. Recently methods using the rate of emission of moisture have appeared. These may also be satisfactory but the bases of their criteria are not known.</p><p>Gravimetric methods are unsatisfactory because of the difficulty of obtaining a representative sample. Electrical conductivity has been used but is sensitive to factors other than moisture content. Dielectric properties vary with moisture content and have given reasonable results under laboratory conditions. Further work is needed to apply this method to field conditions. Micro-wave absorption has been used to determine moisture in walls but at present cannot be used for floor slabs on grade. The results vary with the nature of the material.</p><p>Neutron scattering has been widely used to determine moisture in soils and has been advocated for other materials including concrete. The method is direct and non-destructive and requires access to only one side of the speciment. Results have been claimed to depend solely on the water content, i.e., to be independent of the nature and density of the material. Experiments with concrete and timber have shown that this is not correct. Instrument response rises with density to such an extent that the same instrument response was obtained on a foamed concrete and a dense concrete with water contents in the ratio of 2:1. The composition of the sample also affects the response. This method therefore cannot safely be used with a common calibration curve for all substances.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100973,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Structural Engineering","volume":"2 5","pages":"Pages 494-500"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1965-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0369-5816(65)90077-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91681468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}