"Accident Prevention. "Accident Mitigation. "Aviation System Monitoring and Modeling. Accident Prevention is attacking the issue of airplane accidents from ...

... Program has two different focus areas: accident prevention and accident mitigation. Accident prevention research concentrates on the following issues: ...

System-Wide Accident Prevention Addresses aviation safety issues ... Aviation System Monitoring and Modeling, Accident Mitigation, and Synthetic Vision. ...

System Issues. Coverage. "Global. "Regional. "Oceanic. "Line-of-Sight. Utilization ... Mitigation. Douglas Rohn. (GRC). Accident. Mitigation. Douglas Rohn ...

report into the accident was issued in 2004. It provides a relatively thorough analysis of the causes of adequate risk mitigation in the events leading to the �berlingen accident. At Linate, the multi concerns between the �berlingen and Linate accidents. Staffing issues ...

ACcident Mitigation is a primary element of the Aviation. Safety. Program. The overall ..... Issues. The certification issues of a systems approach aircraft ...

An important goal of the US DOE reactor development program is to conceptualize advanced safety design features for a demonstration Sodium Fast Reactor (SFR). The treatment of severe accidents is one of the key safety issues in the design approach for adv...

This paper is concerned with the application of severe-accident codes to develop improved accident mitigation strategies for nuclear power plants employing boiling water reactors (BWRs). Specifically, the results of analyses using the APRIL.MOD3X code are presented for typical station blackout accidents. ...

of the accident could have been mitigated. The safety issues identified during the investigation were: 1 accidents, determine the probable causes of the accidents, issue safety recommendations, study. The following discussion includes a narrative description of the ...

Address aviation safety issues associated with. Human error; Procedural non- compliance. Reduce aviation accident rates by. Reducing or mitigating human ...

Nov 1, 2000 ... The System-Wide Accident Prevention (SWAP) project goal is to address aviation safety issues associated with human error and procedural noncomplianc ... Reducing or mitigating human error effects should result in ...

) identifying and implementing controls to prevent and/or mitigate potential accidents. DOE relies heavily to develop and execute an acceptable plan to resolve these issues, some of which were identified as early on computer software to analyze hazards, and design and operate controls that prevent or mitigate ...

This paper summarizes the results of eight years of mitigative measures to radioactive contamination within the 30 kilometer exclusion zone surrounding the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. We hope to demonstrate that effectiveness of mitigative measures depends not only on proper application of technology but also on selection of projects offering ...

Due to the government requirements severe accident mitigating measures were implemented at Barseback nuclear power plant in 1985 and at the other Swedish nuclear power plants in 1988. For the latter plants these measures included protection against early containment impairment, highly redundant containment spray and filtered venting of the containment. ...

. These issues are more likely to appear as contributory rather than primary causes in this set of accident or mitigate their effects'. Similarly, Cook and Woods [2] argue that accidents occur through the concatenation the results of an independent analysis of the primary and contributory causes of aviation ...

in the event of a terrorist attack or technological accident. Summary of the benefits of mitigation planning information issues to consider. #12;1-8 STATE AND LOCAL MITIGATION PLANNING how-to guide: Integrating ManmadeSeptember 2003 FEMA 386-7 Version 2.0 #12;#12;STATE AND LOCAL MITIGATION ...

Effective planning for the management of severe accidents at nuclear power plants can produce both a reduction in the frequency of such accidents as well as the ability to mitigate their consequences if and when they should occur. This report provides an ...

The two worst accidents in the world's nuclear industry occurred in a time span of seven years, namely, the accidents at Three Mile Island Nuclear Station Unit 2 (TMI-2) in 1979 and at Chernobyl in 1986. Because probabilistic risk assessments (PRAs) have been shown to be effective in identifying weak points in plant design and operations, they can ...

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is involved in the review of severe accident issues to satisfy Atomic Energy Act and National Environmental Policy Act considerations for the next generation of light water reactor (LWR) designs. The NRC is conducting reviews on a number of evolutionary and passive standardized reactors that are expected to ...

The fundamental objective of the accident management program is to assure, in the event of a severe accident at a nuclear plant, that the effectiveness of personnel and equipment is maximized in preventing or mitigating the consequences of the accident. T...

...mitigate the consequences of an accident; (ii) The equipment...relied on to prevent potential accidents or mitigate their consequences...relied on to prevent potential accidents or mitigate their consequences...evaluated in the Integrated Safety Analysis. (d) The ...

...costs and benefits of severe accident mitigation design alternatives...for not incorporating severe accident mitigation design alternatives...utilizing the reactor in a nuclear power plant, or an evaluation...amendment either renders a severe accident mitigation ...

Vulnerabilities of an ice-condenser containment to challenges that could arise from severe accidents have been assessed. The phenomenological issues associated with containment challenges have been evaluated. A number of containment improvements which have the potential to mitigate severe accident challenges have ...

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The Surry low power and shutdown probabilistic risk analysis (PRA) is an ongoing project at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) to identify and quantify potential accident scenarios that may occur in a pressurized water reactor (PWR) during low power and shutdown. It was initiated as a result of various incidents and accidents that have occurred within ...

The definition and the multidimensionality aspects of accident management have been reviewed. The suggested elements in the development of a programme for severe accident management have been identified and discussed. The strategies concentrate on the two tiered approaches. Operative management utilizes the plant's equipment and operators ...

Severe accident management can be defined as the use of existing and/or alternative resources, systems and actors to prevent or mitigate a core-melt accident. For each accident sequence and each combination of severe accident management strategies, there ...

All commercial boiling water reactor (BWR) plants in the US employ primary containments of the pressure suppression design. These primary containments are surrounded and enclosed by a secondary containment consisting of a reactor building and refueling bay (MK I and MK II designs), a shield building, auxiliary building and fuel building (MK III), or an auxiliary building and enclosure building ...

ORNL's Advanced Neutron Source (ANS) will be a new user facility for all kinds of neutron research, centered around a research reactor of unprecedented neutron beam flux. A defense-in-depth philosophy has been adopted. In response to this commitment, ANS Project management has initiated severe accident analysis and related technology development efforts early-on in ...

ORNL`s Advanced Neutron Source (ANS) will be a new user facility for all kinds of neutron research, centered around a research reactor of unprecedented neutron beam flux. A defense-in-depth philosophy has been adopted. In response to this commitment, ANS Project management has initiated severe accident analysis and related technology development efforts early-on in the design ...

This subscription offers publications presenting highway accident reports issued in calendar year 1983.

This subscription offers publications presenting highway accident reports issued in calendar year 1982.

One of the most important uses of dose assessment models in response to accidents at nuclear facilities is to help provide guidance to emergency response managers for identifying, and mitigating, the consequences of an accident once the accident has been ...

The basis for securing nuclear safety is to prevent occurrence of accidents and to mitigate propagation of abnormal events or accidents to severe accidents. In practice, a nuclear power plant is designed and constructed so that abnormal events can be dete...

As part of the Severe Accident Sequence Analysis (SASA) program of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), threats to containment and ways in which operators can help preserve containment integrity during severe accidents are examined. Severe accidents a...

The overall objective of this research was to study work zone accidents in New York State, with particular attention to the occurrence and mitigation of rear-end vehicle accidents. The specific objectives were to recommend changes to the NYSDOT's accident...

mitigate occurrence of injury incidents by periodically assessing potential hazards. � EHS provides Safety will be revised to suggest those who cannot attend email their issues/questions/concerns to Chris Cary. NEW 2009 Incident Rate (January through June) Dept. Name Hours Worked # of Total Accidents # of OSHA

... Accession Number : ADA412381. Title : Modelling Issues of Wireless LANs for Accident and Emergency Departments. Descriptive ...

Following the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power reactor in the Soviet Union, a number of reviews were conducted of the N Reactor. Hydrogen generation during postulates severe accidents and the possibility of resulting hydrogen deflagrations/detonations that could affect confinement integrity were issues raised in several reviews, ...

An important goal of the US DOE reactor development program is to conceptualize advanced safety design features for a demonstration Sodium Fast Reactor (SFR). The treatment of severe accidents is one of the key safety issues in the design approach for advanced SFR systems. It is necessary to develop an in-depth understanding of the risk of severe ...

A series of bounding (worst-case) calculations were performed using a detailed hydrodynamic RELAP5 model of the N Reactor graphite and shield cooling system (GSCS). These calculations were specifically aimed to answer issues raised by the Westinghouse Independent Safety Review (WISR) committee. These questions address the operability of the GSCS during a worst-case ...

The Three Mile Island accident resulted in the generation of an estimated 150 to 600 kg of hydrogen, some of which burned inside the containment building, causing a transient pressure rise of roughly 200 kPa (2 atm). With this accident as the immediate impetus and the improved safety of reactors as the long-term goal, the nuclear industry and the Nuclear ...

The Waste Receiving and Processing Facility Module 1 Auditable Safety Analysis analyzes postulated accidents and determines controls to prevent the accidents or mitigate the consequences.

The invention relates to a container for the safe air transport of plutonium having several intermediate wood layers and a load spreader intermediate an inner container and an outer shell for mitigation of shock during a hypothetical accident.

This document describes the following aspects: Core meltdown prevention guidelines; severe accidents with core meltdown mitigation; diagnosis and prognosis methods. Figs. (Atomindex citation 24:067128)

ing the effects of those accidents that do occur. Prevention and mitigation activities include: .... ing accidents caused by in-flight fires and elimi- ...

...occurrences and accidents with existing systems and procedures intended to mitigate the release consequences, along with site characteristics, including meteorology, to evaluate the offsite radiological...

Sandia National Laboratories is conducting a hydrogen research program for the Office of Research of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Our program has two major objectives: assessment of the threat to nuclear power plants (containment structure, safety and control equipment, and the primary system) posed by hydrogen combustion; assessment of proposed hydrogen control and disposal methods, and ...

... used for the mitigation of radiation injury in victims of nuclear accidents or acts of radiological terrorism. The high dose requirements, the pronounced threshold effect, ... ...

...this section, for which a nuclear power reactor manufactured...costs and benefits of severe accident mitigation design alternatives...for not incorporating severe accident mitigation design alternatives...changes to the design of the nuclear power reactor authorized...

...severe accident mitigation design alternatives into the design of the...plant, or an evaluation of alternative energy sources. (b) Each applicant...severe accident mitigation design alternative previously rejected in...

...mitigate the consequences of accidents which could result in potential...mitigate the consequences of accidents which could result in potential...safety-related design, analysis, inspection, testing...or construction means the analysis, design,...

An assessment of many potential HFIR severe accident phenomena was conducted during the HFIR design effort, and many severe accident mitigating features were designed into the plant. These evaluation typically incorporated a bounding'' or highly conservative analysis approach and employed tools and techniques ...

Methods are developed for assessing the cost effectiveness of proposed systems and strategies for mitigating the consequences of severe nuclear accidents. Such mitigation systems consist mostly of devices for improving the ability of a reactor containment to survive such an accident and retain all radioactive ...

... Section 51.55 Energy NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION (CONTINUED...costs and benefits of severe accident mitigation design alternatives...for not incorporating severe accident mitigation design alternatives...amendment either renders a severe accident mitigation design...

French studies have early considered the fact that, despite all the precautions taken, the possibility of severe accidents cannot be absolutely excluded; these accidents include core meltdown and a more or less significant loss, at an early or later stage...

This paper briefly describes the results of work carried out in support of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Accident Management Research Program to evaluate the effectiveness and feasibility of current and proposed strategies for BWR severe accident m...

As a part of the evaluation of accident management strategies for severe accident prevention or mitigation in a station blackout scenario for YGN 3 and 4, an external vessel cooling strategy for the prevention of reactor vessel failure has been estimated ...

This document includes the calculations performed to quantify the risk associated with the unmitigated and mitigated accident scenarios described in the TWRS FSAR for the accident analysis titled: Surface Leaks Resulting in Pool.

This document includes the calculations performed to quantify the risk associated with the unmitigated and mitigated accident scenarios described in the TWRS FSAR for the accident analysis titled: Surface Leaks Resulting in Pool.

This document includes the calculations performed to quantify the risk associated with the unmitigated and mitigated accident scenarios described in the TWRS FSAR for the accident analysis titled: Subsurface Leaks Resulting in Pool.

In Washington State, priority programming for evaluating accident prevention and mitigation (safety improvement) involves analysis of roadside features, but the effects that such features have on the frequency and severity of accidents is not well underst...

The Accident Management Orientation Guide identifies the guidelines needed for mitigating the hazards associated with a hazardous materials (HM) in-service railroad derailment and a HM yard accident. The guide addresses all phases of on-scene emergency re...

In anticipation of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission generic letter regarding accident management, the Boiling Water Reactor Owners' Group (BWROG) has commissioned the development of Accident Management Guidelines (AMGs). One outgrowth of the industry performance of individual plant examinations (IPES) is the development of more effective ...

An important goal of the US DOE Sodium Fast Reactor (SFR) program is to develop the technology necessary to increase safety margins in future fast reactor systems. Although no decision has been made yet about who will build the next demonstration fast reactor, it seems likely that the construction team will include a combination of international companies, and the safety design philosophy for the ...

... 17 Energy Minister Interviewed on Nuclear Accident at Tomsk [Tokyo NHK 7 Apr] .... ... Otherwise fication in Case of Nuclear Accidents. ...

Plant features and operator actions which have been found to be important in either preventing and mitigating severe accidents in PWRs with ice-condenser containments have been identified. Thus features and actions were developed from insights derived from reviews of risk assessments performed specifically for the Sequoyah plant and from assessments of ...

Sodium-cooled fast reactors are designed to have a high level of safety. Events of high probability of occurrence are typically handled without consequence through reliable engineering systems and good design practices. For accidents of lower probability, the initiating events are characterized by larger and more numerous challenges to the reactor system, such as failure of ...

... AND SUBTITLE Biosurveillance: Detecting, Tracking, and Mitigating the Effects of Natural ... Ethical and procedural issues inherent in managing ...

mitigation processes and technologies; and to .... government to address Planetary Defense issues in ... impact hazards and mitigation options. ...

... issues related to how water can be used to mitigate blasts within enclosures, and specifically looks at the use of water mist in mitigating blast waves ...

Photovoltaic cell fabrication facilities may adversely affect public health by emitting pollutants during routine operation or by accidental events. The most important hazards probably relate to accidental releases of toxic or flammable gases used in large quantities in thin-film photovoltaic cell production. The most efficient strategies for reducing gas risks is to choose material and process ...

Generic Issue 99 is concerned with the loss of residual heat removal (RHR) capability in pressurized water reactors during cold-plant outage operations. The issue focuses on two risk-significant common-cause failure modes of the RHR system: (1) air binding of the RHR pumps during reduced-inventory operations and (2) spurious closure of the RHR suction ...

The implementation of containment venting and filtration capability has been suggested as a means for reducing the risk from fuel melt accidents in light water reactors. The risk reduction potential of such systems depends upon the dual function of venting containment to prevent overpressurization from the generation of steam and noncondensibles and filtering the effluent to ...

The implementation of a containment venting and filtration capability has been suggested as a means for reducing the risk from fuel melt accidents in light water reactors. The risk reduction potential of such systems depends upon the dual function of venting containment to prevent overpressurization from the generation of steam and noncondensibles and filtering the effluent to ...

The purpose of the Severe Accident Sequence Analysis (SASA) Program was to investigate accident scenarios beyond the design basis. The primary objective of SASA was to analyze nuclear plant transients that could lead to partial or total core melt and evaluate potential mitigating actions. The following summarizes the pressurized water ...

Sodium-cooled mixed-oxide core design studies are performed with a target burnup of 150 GWd/t and possible measures against the recriticality issues in core disruptive accidents. Four types of core are compared from the viewpoints of core performance and reliability. Results show that all the types of core satisfy the target and that a homogeneous core ...

Many hospital emergency plans focus on the hospital as a disaster responder, with a fully operational medical facility, able to receive and treat mass casualties from a clearly defined accident scene. However, hospitals need to prepare a response for extreme casualty events such as earthquakes, tornadoes, or hurricanes. This article describes the planning, ...

The inspectors determined that failure to identify and perform preventive maintenance tasks for instrument air dryer 1IA-D-1 in accordance with manufacturer recommendations was the root cause of the June 22, 2001, Unit 1 loss of instrument air (LOIA) and subsequent manual reactor trip. The LOIA increased the likelihood that mitigation equipment (specifically the power ...

The publication contains brief reports issued in May 1986. The brief reports present the accident description and probable cause for the following accidents: Grounding and sinking of Fish Tender ALASKA ROUGHNECK; Fire onboard and sinking of Fishing Vessel...

The paper will discuss work being conducted during this human factors review including: (1) support of the Severe Accident Sequence Analysis (SASA) Program based on an assessment of operator actions, and (2) development of a descriptive model of operator severe accident management. Research by SASA analysts on the Browns Ferry Unit One (BF1) anticipated ...

Elements of risk in reactor accidents are discussed. Estimates of the public risk from nuclear-power-plant accidents hinge on three important factors: (1) the probability of specific events occurring that could lead to an accident involving radiation release; (2) the quantity, type, and timing of release of radioactive material that ...

This reports documents work performed the NRC/RES Accident Management Guidance Program to evaluate possible strategies for mitigating the consequences of PWR severe accidents. The selection and evaluation of strategies was limited to the in-vessel phase of the severe accident, i.e., after the initiation of core ...

This report describes analyses of the response of a Pressurized-Water Reactor at the Zion Plant to hypothetical core-meltdown sequences. The analyses consider the progression of core meltdown, containment response, and consequences to the public for many specific accident sequences within the categories of Loss of Coolant Accidents (LOCAs), ...

Recent US Department of Energy plans to construct a Heavy Water Reactor for the production of defense nuclear materials have created a unique opportunity to explore ways to mitigate severe accident concerns in the design stage. Drawing on an extensive background in USNRC-sponsored severe accident work, Sandia National Laboratories has ...

Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Framing Issues; Chapter 3: Issues related to mitigation in the long-term context; Chapter 4: Energy Supply; Chapter ... ...

This article discusses the importance of emergency planning for reactor accidents even though the politics of the nuclear debate has been responsible, in part, for the slow development of serious emergency planning. Up to now, enormous resources have been devoted to accident prevention while negligible resources have been allocated to the development of ...

This publication contains summary reports of major marine accidents, adopted from August 1979 through June 1982. The summary reports present the probable cause and accident descriptions for the following accidents: Oceanographic Research Vessel PROFILER, ...

This publication contains summary reports of major marine accidents, occurring from January through June 1979. The summary reports present the probable cause and accident descriptions for the following accidents: Fishing vessel OCEAN CAPE lost on January ...

A NASA Ames Research Center analysis of rotorcraft accident data identified safety issues that could lead to a reduction in accidents. The primary source of data was summaries of National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) accident reports. Lower cost hel...

Interim storage of alkaline, high-level radioactive waste, from two generations of spent fuel reprocessing and waste management activities, has resulted in the accumulation of 238 million liters of waste in Hanford Site single and double-shell tanks. Before the 1990`s, the stored waste was believed to be: (1) chemically unreactive under its existing storage conditions and plausible ...

The research documented in the report involved a review of legal and insurance issues relative to off-site accident investigation locations, referred to as Accident Investigation Sites (AISs), through library searches and contact with a limited number of ...

In support of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Accident Management Research Program, a methodology has been developed for identifying the plant information needs necessary for personnel involved in the management of an accident to diagnose that an accident is in progress, select and implement strategies to prevent or ...

This investigation provides an assessment of the likelihood and consequences of a severe accident in a spent fuel storage pool - the complete draining of the pool. Potential mechanisms and conditions for failure of the spent fuel, and the subsequent release of the fission products, are identified. Two older PWR and BWR spent fuel storage pool designs are considered based on a ...

Because hydrogen combustion is one of the major containment threats during severe accidents, different hydrogen mitigation measures have been implemented in nuclear power plants throughout the world. In German Konvoi plants passive autocatalytic recombiners have been selected for hydrogen risk reduction. This paper proposes a new further improved option by ...

It is important to understand and model the chemical and physical behavior of vapor iodine species in containment environments for the following reasons: This behavior can contribute significantly to severe accident source terms; the development of accident mitigation or management strategies (e.g., an effective filter system); for ...

by the night vision devices. Many more accidents might have occurred if aircrews had not been wearingInteractions between Brown-out Accidents and Night Vision Equipment in Military Aviation Accidents: Accident/Incident Analysis, Crew Safety, Military Safety. Abstract Night vision devices (NVDs) ...

Safety assurance methods have been developed and applied in reactor safety assessments of FFTF. These methods promote visibility of the total safety provided by the plant, both in prevention of off-normal or accident conditions as well as provision of var...

The action taken to mitigate the consequences of a radiation accident occuring in the State of Chihuahua, Mexico, is described, when a no longer in use cobalt-60 teletherapy unit, with radioactive pellets still inside, was sold, unwittingly as ordinary sc...

Level of the Chernobyl accident, radiation situation after it, influence of external and internal irradiation on persons who participated in mitigation of this accident consequences were analyzed. Problems of diagnostics and treatment of thyroid diseases ...

Transportation Accident Resistant Containers (TARC)s are used for enhanced safety during movement of nuclear weapons. Its design features a tough stainless steel outer skin, redwood for impact mitigation and fire protection and a rugged aluminum inner con...

The purpose of this report is to document a systematic evaluation of the Passive Advanced Light Water Reactor (ALWR) design requirements which address severe accident mitigation. This evaluation was performed concurrent with completion of the ALWR Require...

The principal objective of this study was to monitor existing sections of rural, multi-lane, divided highways in Texas that have received shoulder treatments designed to mitigate single vehicle run-off-the-road (SVROR) accidents. The purpose of the presen...

This paper briefly describes the results of work carried out in support of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Accident Management Research Program to evaluate the effectiveness and feasibility of current and proposed strategies for BWR severe accident management. These results are described in detail in the just-released report Identification and ...

This paper briefly describes the results of work carried out in support of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Accident Management Research Program to evaluate the effectiveness and feasibility of current and proposed strategies for BWR severe accident management. These results are described in detail in the just-released report Identification and ...

The report identifies and assesses accident management strategies which could be important for preventing containment failure and/or mitigating the release of fission products during a severe accident in a BWR plant with a Mark III type of containment. Ba...

Accident management strategies that have the potential to maintain containment integrity and control or mitigate the release of radioactivity following a severe accident at a boiling water reactor with a Mark II type of containment are identified and eval...

The report identifies and assesses accident management strategies which could be important for preventing containment failure and/or mitigating the release of fission products during a severe accident in a BWR plant with a Mark I type of containment. Base...

The report provides the results of work carried out in support of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Accident Management Research Program to develop a technical basis for evaluating the effectiveness and feasibility of current and proposed strategies ...

Factors external to the aircraft are often a significant causal factor in loss of control (LOC) accidents. In today s aviation world, very few accidents stem from a single cause and typically have a number of causal factors that culminate in a LOC acciden...

A limited study has been performed assessing the effectiveness of containment sprays to mitigate particular challenges which may occur during a severe accident. Certain aspects of thee specific topics related to using sprays under severe accident conditio...

Probabilistic Risk Assessments (PRAs) have identified severe accidents for nuclear power plants that have the potential to cause failure of the containment through direct containment heating (DCH). Prevention of DCH or mitigation of its effects may be pos...

The idea of primary containment venting to prevent or mitigate the consequences from a severe accident is not new. Research has been conducted on filter effectiveness for over thirty years. United States production reactors have had containment filter sys...

Candidate mitigative strategies for management of in-vessel events during the late phase (after core degradation has occurred) of postulated BWR severe accidents were considered at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) during 1990. The identification of ne...

A set of candidate accident management strategies, whose purpose is to prevent or mitigate in-vessel core damage, were identified from various NRC and industry reports. These strategies have been grouped by the challenges they are intended to meet, and as...

The report presents the results of a scoping investigation to ascertain the effectiveness and practicability of three hydrogen control measures for the Sequoyah Nuclear Power Plant--deliberate ignition, water fogging, and Halon addition after accident ini...

... in Conflict, Environmental Trade as a Conduit for Crime, Nuclear Issues, Conflict and Environmental Crimes, and Environmental Accidents as Crimes....

The report contains detailed results of a study for the identification of reactor core-melt accident mitigation measures at the Zion and Indian Point plants. Mitigation strategies have been identified that show promise of providing large reduction in cons...

This paper documents a study of the consequences of loss of coolant accidents in the Advanced Neutron Source reactor, and it introduces the concept of an inertial flow diodes to mitigate the effect of large cold leg breaks. 2 refs., 1 fig.

... of a nuclear accident or a deliberate radiation terrorism event (22). In contrast, radiation mitigation agents would be administered after an incident to victims thought or known to have received a signifi...

The paper discusses work conducted to: (1) support the severe accident sequence analysis of a nuclear power plant transient based on an assessment of operator actions, and (2) develop a descriptive model of operator severe accident management. Operator actions during the transient are assessed using qualitative and quantitative methods. A function-oriented ...

Natural disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, flooding or hurricanes have recently and dramatically hit several countries worldwide. Both direct and indirect consequences involved the population, causing on the one hand a high number of fatalities and on the other hand so relevant economical losses that the national gross product may be affected for many years. Loss of critical industrial ...

Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) Recommendation 2002-1 (''Quality Assurance for Safety-Related Software'') identified a number of quality assurance issues on the use of software in Department of Energy (DOE) facilities for analyzing hazards, and designing and operating controls to prevent or mitigate ...

With these four emphases in mind, products and technologies are sought to mitigate or prevent relevant accidents, to enhance human survivability in the ...

aviation (GA) airplanes equipped with airbags provide additional protection to occupants in accidents involving survivable forward impacts. Airbags are designed to mitigate...

of offshore platforms, the assessment of methods to mitigate problems associated with human factors in accidents, the use of risk and reliability methods to assess safety...

... exposure to toxic concentrations; likelihood of accidents and errors. ... 13. Risk Mitigation Measure. ... www.epa.gov/oppsrrd1/reregistration/soil_fumigants ...

... Abstract : The Navy's five Atlantic Fleet nuclear powered aircraft carriers (CVNs) are all ... To mitigate the risk of a terrorist attack, accident, or natural ...

... minimal toxicities. Their use should be considered for victims exposed to radiation as a result of an accident or terrorism or for patients as part of cancer therapy. ... ...

... based on site-specific and accident-specific damage ... inward flying shards could injury occupants ... therefore mitigations to prevent injuries to building ...

Feb 18, 2003 ... Columbia Accident Investigation Board Press Briefing ... management issues, the work force issues, safety and mission insurance, ...

This report describes the empirical test program conducted on a 1/22-scale model of the WIPP facility. The model was designed to study the actions and effects of the wire rope used in the Koepe or friction-type hoist during various accident scenarios. It is assumed that the hoist cable breaks and the cab (or shaft conveyance) falls to the bottom of the shaft during such an ...