{"title":"Chapter 3 Safety Principles for Pressurised Water Reactors in the French Nuclear Power Plant Fleet","authors":"","doi":"10.1051/978-2-7598-1930-0-006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1051/978-2-7598-1930-0-006","url":null,"abstract":"The goal of this chapter is not to provide an exhaustive explanation of nuclear safety principles and practices at facilities in France (for a discussion on this topic, see the work of J. Libmann [1]), but to illustrate the two complementary safety approaches, deterministic and probabilistic, by introducing a key concept of the first, defence-in-depth, and a general description of probabilistic safety assessments (PSAs), which are part of the second.","PeriodicalId":308465,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Power Reactor Core Melt Accidents","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122200166","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":"Chapter 4 Safety Principles for France’s Pressurised Water Reactors","authors":"","doi":"10.1051/978-2-7598-1930-0-007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1051/978-2-7598-1930-0-007","url":null,"abstract":"A severe accident or core melt accident at a PWR is an accident during which the reactor fuel is significantly damaged with more or less extensive melting of the reactor core. This melting is caused by extended loss of core cooling by the coolant and, in turn, a significant increase in the temperature of the exposed fuel rods. Owing to the preventive measures in place (see Section 3), such an accident occurs only following a series of failures (multiple human or equipment failures). The failure, in 1979, of the second reactor at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant nevertheless confirmed that a series of failures could lead to a core melt accident. Fortunately, the accident did not have significant environmental consequences (Section 7.1). The Fukushima-Daiichi accident in 2011 showed that external hazards (tsunami triggered by an earthquake) with a ma gnitude greater than a facility’s design basis could also lead to core meltdowns. Unfortunately, this accident resulted in significant amounts of radioactivity being released into the environment.","PeriodicalId":308465,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Power Reactor Core Melt Accidents","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126478302","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":"Chapter 7 Lessons Learned from the Three Mile Island and Chernobyl Accidents and from the Phebus FP Research Programme","authors":"","doi":"10.1051/978-2-7598-1930-0-010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1051/978-2-7598-1930-0-010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":308465,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Power Reactor Core Melt Accidents","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130306926","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":"List of abbreviations","authors":"","doi":"10.1051/978-2-7598-1930-0-002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1051/978-2-7598-1930-0-002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":308465,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Power Reactor Core Melt Accidents","volume":"1439 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127443635","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":"Chapter 5 Development of the core melt accident","authors":"","doi":"10.1051/978-2-7598-1930-0.c008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1051/978-2-7598-1930-0.c008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":308465,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Power Reactor Core Melt Accidents","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131454153","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":"Chapter 2 Design and Operation of a Pressurised Water Reactor","authors":"","doi":"10.1051/978-2-7598-1930-0.c005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1051/978-2-7598-1930-0.c005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":308465,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Power Reactor Core Melt Accidents","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121046570","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}