Nuclear accident Rasmussen report

In this period up to the TMI accident, three other facts influenced nuclear safety technology defence against non-natural external events the preparation of the Rasmussen report, WASH 1400 and the introduction of Quality Assurance (QA) in design, construction and operation of plants. 

Obtain a copy of a fault tree analysis for a system and review the analysis and results. You might wish to look at one of the classic reports on nuclear power plant safety Reactor Safety Study An Assessment of Accident Risks in U.S. Commercial Nuclear Power Plants, Report WASH-1400, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, October 1975. (This report is also known as the Rasmussen report.)... 

The deterministic approach to the design of nuclear reactors was rapidly supplemented by the development of probabilistic studies, referred to as PSAs and also as PRA. The first study of this kind carried out in the United States was published in 1975 (Rasmussen report—USNRC 1975) and provided the first assessment of the potential risk of core damage for two power reactors. The accident in 1979 at the Three Mile Island plant generated renewed interest in this type of study. One of the recommendations made after the accident was that probabilistic analysis techniques should be used to supplement conventional safety assessment procedures for NPPs, and that probabilistic objectives should be developed in order to facilitate the determination of acceptable safety levels for nuclear facilities. 

Island/Thurrock Area, HMSO, London, 1978. Rasmussen, Reactor Safety Study An Assessment of Accident Risk in U. S. Commercial Nuclear Power Plants, WASH-1400 NUREG 75/014, Washington, D.C., 1975. Rijnmond Public Authority, A Risk Analysis of 6 Potentially Hazardous Industrial Objects in the Rijnmond Area—A Pilot Study, D. Reidel, Boston, 1982. Considine, The Assessment of Individual and Societal Risks, SRD Report R-310, Safety and Reliability Directorate, UKAEA, Warrington, 1984. Baybutt, Uncertainty in Risk Analysis, Conference on Mathematics in Major Accident Risk Assessment, University of Oxford, U.K., 1986. 

Rasmussen, N. C., Reactor Safety Study an Assessment of Accident Risks in US Coimnercial Nuclear Power Plants, Main report. Rep. WASH 1400 - MR (NUREG -75/014), United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission -Washington, DC, USA, (1975). 

N.C. Rasmussen, Reactor Safety Study An assessment of accident risk in US commercial nuclear power plants, AEC Report, WASH-1400-MR (NUREG-75/014), United States NRC, Washington, DC, 1975—http //www.iaea.org/inis/collection/NCLCollectionStore/ Public/35/053/35053391.pdf. 

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