Nuclear power safety

If possible comparisons are focused on energy systems, nuclear power safety is also estimated to be superior to all electricity generation methods except for natural gas (30). Figure 3 is a plot of that comparison in terms of estimated total deaths to workers and the pubHc and includes deaths associated with secondary processes in the entire fuel cycle. The poorer safety record of the alternatives to nuclear power can be attributed to fataUties in transportation, where comparatively enormous amounts of fossil fuel transport are involved. Continuous or daily refueling of fossil fuel plants is required as compared to refueling a nuclear plant from a few tmckloads only once over a period of one to two years. This disadvantage appHes to solar and wind as well because of the necessary assumption that their backup power in periods of no or Httie wind or sun is from fossil-fuel generation. Now death or serious injury has resulted from radiation exposure from commercial nuclear power plants in the United States (31). 

Utilization of country s underground space to increase nuclear power safety. Proceedings of International Conference, October 20-22, 1992, Apatity, Murmansk region, 3 parts. Kola Science Centre RAS, Apatity (in Russian). 

Michael Wilson and Pat McClure of the Los Alamos National Laboratory s D-5, Nuclear Design and Risk Analysis Group, who are leading the world in risk analysis and also providing key support in and beyond the United States for security and nuclear power safety. 

We begin this chapter with a brief overview of the concept of economic deregulation, as implemented both in the U.S. electricity industry and in other industries. We then discuss the approach taken in this book to understanding the effects of deregulation on nuclear power safety. In particular, our approach rests on a detailed review of how economic deregulation has affected safety in three other industries with important similarities to the U.S. nuclear power industry—namely, the U.S. air and rail industries, and the nuclear power industry in the United Kingdom (U.K.). 

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The trust in nuclear power safety was shaken hy three major accidents at nuclear power plants Windscale (UK, 1957), Three-Mile Island (USA, 1979), and Chemohyl (USSR, 1986). Public consciousness, which associated nuclear energy with the tragic experience of its military... 

Nuclear Power Safety, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden... 

Morozov, S.I. (5) USRR State Committee for the Suf)ervision of Nuclear Power Safety, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics... 

An ET is a graphical model of an accident scenario that yields multiple outcomes and outcome probabilities. An ET is constructed during ETA and is frequently used as one of the tools in a probabilistic risk assessment (PRA). ETs first made their appearance in risk assessment in the WASH-1400 nuclear power safety study, where they were used to generate, define, and classify scenarios specified at the PE level. 

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Nuclear power safety covers those safety aspects involved with a nuclear power plant. A nuclear power system is a high-consequence system requiring an extensive SSP. 

Nuclear power safety-related hazards and safety concerns include ... 

INTERNATIONAL NUCLEAR SAFETY ADVISORY GROUP. The Safety of Nuclear Power, Safety Series No. 75-INSAG-5, IAEA, Vienna (1992). 

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