Nuclear Safety in Light Water Reactors
Severe Accident Phenomenology
Edited by- Bal Raj Sehgal, Emeritus Chair Professor of Nuclear Power Safety, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Hardbound, 740 Pages
Published: December 2011
Imprint: Academic Press
ISBN: 978-0-12-388446-6
Contents
- I. LIGHT WATER REACTOR (LWR) SAFETY, A HISTORICAL REVIEW
II. IN-VESSEL CORE DEGRADATION
III. EARLY CONTAINMENT FAILURE
IV. LATE CONTAINMENT FAILURE
V. FISSION PRODUCT RELEASE AND TRANSPORT
VI. SEVERE ACCIDENT MANAGEMENT
VII. ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT OF THE ACCIDENT
VIII. INTEGRAL CODES FOR SEVERE ACCIDENT ANALYSES
APPENDIX 1: Corium thermodynamics and thermophysics
APPENDIX 2: Severe accidents in CANDU (PHWR)
