information about different types of disasters. Browse these EPA Disasters subtopics Accidents Accident Preparedness, Accident Prevention, Chemical Accidents, Radiation Accidents...

information about different types of disasters. Browse these EPA Disasters subtopics Accidents Accident Preparedness, Accident Prevention, Chemical Accidents, Radiation Accidents...

This booklet is written to help the untrained accident investigator perform a type ''C'' accident investigation. It is designed to identify the philosophy of accident investigation, the steps involved, the potential problems in the investigation, and give...

Boys are involved in more motor vehicle accidents than are girls. Nighttime accidents account for relatively few accidents. However, severity of accident is increased at dark. A different type of accident occurs when the bicycle is used as a toy or as a m...

... Accidents David Palmerton ... Page 4. Page 5. 1 FATALITY AND INJURY RATES FOR TWO TYPES OF ROTORCRAFT ACCIDENTS INTRODUCTION ...

The analysis found Army motor vehicle (AMV) accidents to be the most frequent type of accident reported in fiscal year 79. Driver error was involved in most (71%) of the accidents. The accidents were divided almost equally between commercial/administrativ...

An analysis of the frequency of four different types of rotorcraft accidents was conducted to determine if the number of fatalities and injuries between accident conditions was different. Accidents involving rollover, no rollover, fire, and no fire were s...

This booklet is written to help the untrained accident investigator perform a type C'' accident investigation. It is designed to identify the philosophy of accident investigation, the steps involved, the potential problems in the investigation, and give instruction for completing the DOE 5484 X ...

This booklet is written to help the untrained accident investigator perform a type ``C`` accident investigation. It is designed to identify the philosophy of accident investigation, the steps involved, the potential problems in the investigation, and give instruction for completing the DOE 5484 X form. A ...

... Sixty-six percent of the occupants involved in major fire accidents were injured as compared to 11% in other types of major accidents. ...

The report analyzes the fole of mass media communications in automobile accident prevention. The most effective type of motivation in accident prevention is considered.

... STRESS(PHYSIOLOGY), *IMPACT SHOCK, *AVIATION ACCIDENTS, *MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENTS, MECHANICAL PROPERTIES, TISSUES ...

The purpose was to conduct a comprehensive nationwide study of motorcycle accidents which resulted in injuries and fatalities to motorcyclists; to analyze this information to determine the types of accidents, types of bodily injuries, severity of injuries...

... Accession Number : ADA460769. Title : Fatality and Injury Rates for Two Types of Rotorcraft Accidents. Descriptive Note : Final rept. ...

The report provides a comprehensive review of signal installations and their impacts on accident patterns, and accident frequency and severity. It contains information on accident statistics by type and severity, accident rates for stop controlled and sig...

... 9 Page 17. FY70 ALL ACCIDENT TYPES 1500T INCIDENCE OF MAJOR AND MINOR ACCIDENTS 1250- ALL ... ACCIDENTS ALL 750 ALL 4 VN VN ...

An analysis of 1964 aircraft accidents, using type of airman certificate as a measure of pilot proficiency, is presented. Data show that student pilots generally have a better accident record than any other of the certification groups. Analysis confirmed ...

Fixed-wing aircraft accidents are listed by failure type and by aircraft type. Repeated failures are listed. Accidents are listed by year, fatigue-crack initiation sites, and country.

The following materials are based upon actual helicopter air ambulance accidents, which cover four broad accident types most recently associated with aeromedical accidents: night flying, weather, obstacle strikes, and mechanical failures. Three types of i...

... OF DAY, NATURE OF AIRCRAFT ACCIDENTS, TYPES OF AIRCRAFT AND DEGREES ... SCHOOL OF AVIATION MEDICINE RANDOLPH ...

In the latest priority assessment of road projects made by the Swedish Road Administration police-reported accidents were corrected with respect to type of accident and urban/rural area. Correction implies a differentation of accident costs in order to co...

The pilot requires three types of information to control the movement of the aircraft while avoiding an accident/incident on the airport surface. ...

analyzed the Three Mile Island [1984] and Bhopal [1999] cases, among others. Accidents of this type include an. Osprey helicopter crash [Ladkin 2001], ...

... Abstract : Accident records for large, transport-type, military aircraft were reviewed to ... which would not rupture in a nuclear aircraft crash. ...

The document describes the IAEA Programme on Nuclear Reactor's Accident Management, and analyses the safety assessment of the PWR type reactor. (Atomindex citation 24:067123)

Guidance for Radiation Accident Management Introduction Basics of Radiation Detection Measurement Safety Around Radiation Sources Types of Radiation Exposure Managing Radiation...

The experimental system and types of test specimens as well as safety features of the system are described. Descriptions of the possible accidents, including the maximum credible accidents are analyzed. ( auth)

The report analyzes general aviation takeoff accidents which occurred in 1974, with special emphasis on the involvement of preflight planning. The study discusses the most frequently referenced cause/factors in takeoff accidents in relation to the type ce...

Twenty traffic officers previously involved in preventible accidents during pursuits were matched with a group of officers of similar age and experience who had not had this type of accident (accident-free). Both groups drove an instrumented car at high s...

This report summarizes work conducted to investigate the feasibility of developing effective countermeasures directed at specific alcohol-related accidents or problems. In Phase I, literature and accident data were reviewed to determine the scope and magn...

Dose calculation procedures to be used in the event of a truck transportation accident involving radioactive waste being shipped from a TVA facility. Two types of accidents are considered: one involving fire, and one involving a spill of packaged waste an...

This report presents the results of a DOE-sponsored assessment of nuclear accident response resources. It identifies the mobile resources that could be required to respond to different types of nuclear accidents including major ones like TMI-2, identifies...

The incidence of single vehicle fatal rollover accidents involving utility vehicles was examined from the FARS file using data from years 1978-1980. Vehicle type was separated into 14 categories and the number of fatal accidents and occupant fatalities wa...

The U.S. Bureau of Mines report identifies and evaluates factors responsible for dump-point accidents involving mobile mining equipment. Information regarding the occurrence and severity of the accidents, the industries affected, the types of equipment in...

The results are presented of a statistical analysis of air accidents involving two- and four-engine communications aircraft and general aviation aircraft up to 5.7 tons, with emphasis on agricultural aircraft, based on the whole on accident statistics pub...

This report starts with a discussion of the types of nuclear vessels accidents, in particular accidents which involve the nuclear propulsion systems. Available information on 61 reported nuclear ship events is considered. The ships are in almost all cases...

Data on accidents connected with federal oil and gas operations include: lease and operator; date and duration; type of accident; how controlled; volume of oil spill; and injuries, fatalities and damage.

...fissile materials packagings to withstand accident conditions in transportation. 173...fissile materials packagings to withstand accident conditions in transportation. Each...CFR part 71 for ability to withstand accident conditions in...

...that includes: (i) Accident records with sufficient detail for analysis such as accident type using standard...appropriate); and (iv) Accident rates by customary criteria...data collection, analyses, and...

...that includes: (i) Accident records with detail for analysis such as accident type using standard...appropriate); and (iv) Accident rates by customary criteria...g., data collection, analyses, and standards)...

...that includes: (i) Accident records with details for analysis such as accident type, using standard...appropriate. (iv) Accident rates by customary criteria...g., data collection, analyses, and standards) for...

The Accident Analysis Handbook (AAH) covers four generic facilities: fuel manufacturing, fuel reprocessing, waste storage/solidification, and spent fuel storage; and six accident types: fire, explosion, tornado, criticality, spill, and equipment failure. These are the accident types considered ...

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 ...

This paper presents a simple, systematic approach for developing accident scenarios using generic accident types. Result is a necessary and sufficient set of accident scenarios that can be used to establish the safety envelope for a facility or operation. Us of this approach along with the methodology of ...

Details are given of more than 1,500 60-day-lost-time accidents and contains 12 tables showing different groupings and classifications of these underground accidents in Pennsylvania bituminous mines during 1939. Segregations reveal types and causes of accidents, groups of workers subjected to greatest hazards, ...

This report presents the results of a DOE-sponsored assessment of nuclear accident response resources. It identifies the mobile resources that could be required to respond to different types of nuclear accidents including major ones like TMI-2, identifies the resources currently available and makes recommendations for the design and ...

...2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Post-accident testing. 655.44 Section 655.44 Transportation...OPERATIONS Types of Testing § 655.44 Post-accident testing. (a) Accidents. (1) Fatal accidents. (i) As soon as...

In order to estimate the potential risks due to carbon fibers (CF) released from aircraft accidents, it was necessary to quantify the probability of an accident or incident at a major hub airport. This probability was contingent upon various conditions surrounding the incident including the phase of operation, aircraft type, and the ...

This is Vol. 7 of a 9 volume study of approximately 200,000 California drivers. The volume depicts the relationship between accident frequency and various types of violations in terms of correlation coefficients, regression slopes and cross tables. The vi...

The purpose of this paper is to summarize the international assessments of the radiological impact of the Chernobyl accident. The Chernobyl accident was a technological disaster that went beyond the most pessimistic scenarios of nuclear engineers. It was more sever than a maximum credible accident to which nuclear engineers referred ...

This pamphlet was prepared by the Environmental Health and Safety Department (EH and S) of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL) to provide LBL supervisors with a handy reference to LBL's accident investigation program. The publication supplements the Accident and Emergencies section of LBL's Regulations and Procedures Manual, Pub. 201. The ...

In a recently published paper (Campbell and Ott, 1979), a general methodology was proposed for the statistical evaluation of design-error related accidents. The evaluation aims at an estimate of the combined residual frequency of yet unknown types of accidents lurking in a certain technological system. Here, the original methodology is ...

... Uranium, depending upon the type, may be a radiological hazard or a chemical health hazard, similar to lead poisoning. ...

... The photopigment in the rods is called rhodopsin, or �visual purple.� There are three different types of cone photopigments (red-, blue-, and green ...

The pilot requires three types of information to control the movement of the aircraft while avoiding an accident/incident on the airport surface. ...

While reliable estimates of expected accidents can be achieved by combining observed accidents and accident model predictions using an empirical Bayes approach, there are a number of obstacles to the widespread adoption of the method. This paper concentrates on problems associated with the available predictive models. Of particular ...

Experiments have been performed to simulate accidents which may occur during large-scale production of micro-organisms. Four types of accident, which were considered to be the most likely to result in the greatest hazard to health, were simulated using a bacterial model. The accidents were all concerned with faults ...

Three types of containment configurations for large breeder reactors (1000 MWe/2500 MWt) were compared to determine characteristic responses of each type to selected hypothetical accident conditions. The three types of system configurations were the single, double and containment-confinement designs. Two ...

One of the primary reasons of the escalating rates of injuries and fatalities in the construction industry is the ever so complex, dynamic and continually changing nature of construction work. Use of cranes has become imperative to overcome technical challenges, which has lead to escalation of danger on a construction site. Data from OSHA show that crane accidents have ...

In the past, the selection of representative accidents for refined analysis from the numerous scenarios identified in hazards analyses (HAs) has involved significant judgment and has been difficult to defend. As part of upgrading the Final Safety Analysis Report (FSAR) for the TA-55 plutonium facility at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, an accident ...

The purpose of this study is to compare the value of statistical life (VSL) estimates for traffic, drowning, and fire accidents. Using a choice experiment in a mail survey of 5,000 Swedish respondents we estimated the willingness to pay for risk reductions in the three accidents. In the experiment respondents were asked a series of questions, whether they ...

Several different factors contribute to injury severity in traffic accidents, such as driver characteristics, highway characteristics, vehicle characteristics, accidents characteristics, and atmospheric factors. This paper shows the possibility of using Bayesian Networks (BNs) to classify traffic accidents according to their injury ...

The cases of all persons aged 70 years or more who were killed in traffic accidents in the County of Ringk�bing during the period 1.1.1983-31.12.1990 were reviewed on the basis of the death certificates and the police reports. A total of 58 deaths were involved and this was significantly greater than in the age group 0-69 years (p < 0.01). Twenty-eight of the ...

Due to accident severity and the extent of claim payments commuting accidents are a significant expense factor in the German industry. Therefore the aim of the present study was the identification of risk factors for commuting accidents in a German chemical company. A retrospective analysis of commuting accidents ...

This report is a compilation of all accidents world-wide involving aircraft in commercial service which resulted in the loss of the airframe or one or more fatality, or both. This information has been gathered in order to present a complete inventory of commercial aircraft accidents. Events involving military action, sabotage, terrorist bombings, ...

This report describes an evaluation of flame exposure temperatures of weapons contained in alert (parked) bombers due to accidents that involve aircraft fuel fires. The evaluation includes two types of accident, collisions into an alert aircraft by an aircraft that is on landing or take-off, and engine start ...

This report describes an evaluation of flame exposure temperatures of weapons contained in alert (parked) bombers due to accidents that involve aircraft fuel fires. The evaluation includes two types of accident: collisions into an alert aircraft by an aircraft that is on landing or take-off; and engine start ...

Immediately after the accident in the fourth power unit of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant many computational and analytical investigations of the development of the accident and the values of separate factors in this situation were performed at the NIKIET and other research centers. Foreign research centers, where, in particular, the modern general-loop ...

Washington, D.C. 20594 Highway Accident Brief Accident No.: HWY-03-MH-018 Accident Type: Vehicle loss 2: Local delivery route Injuries 2: None Accident Description About 3:20 p.m. on January 23, 2003-semitrailer. The tractor-semitrailer driver said that he tried to avoid the collision by ...

The goal of the Laser Safety Officer and any laser safety program is to prevent a laser accident from occurring, in particular an injury to a person's eyes. Most laser safety courses talk about laser accidents, causes, and types of injury. The purpose of this presentation is to present a plan for safety offices and users to ...

The paper provides a preliminary assessment of generic accident energetics issues associated with alternatives relative to the reference (U,Pu) oxide fuel in liquid metal fast breeder reactors. The alternatives considered include thorium- and uranium-based oxide, carbide and metal fuel types. This assessment is made within the context of low probability, ...

On August 15, 1962, an explosion of flammable gases was experienced in a 181 KV oil circuit breaker tank at the Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant. This breaker was drained of oil and opened for inspection to determine the cause of high contact resistance detected during routine testing of the breaker. Circumstances preceding the accident, the ...

OSHA reporting. Accident rate reporting for UNL includes all reported injury incidents, even if there is no medical care. OSHA looks at specific types of accidents (OSHA recordable) and lost-time accidents. #12;How, an OSHA recordable accident rate is determined after normalizing so injury ...

Personal Accident Insurance.) Plan type(s). Provider(s). Enrollment date for eligible EEs. Plan Overview. Medical Plans. Example. PPO, HMO, ...

... propellant lots and 72 different propellant types. ... size of 158 determinations for each type ... High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC), with ...

Prior studies in the sociology of accidents have shown that different social groups have different rates of accident involvement. This study extends those studies by implementing Bourdieu's relational perspective of social space to systematically explore the homology between drivers' social characteristics and their involvement in specific ...

The report describes the results of aging, condition monitoring, and accident testing of miscellaneous cable types. Three sets of cables were aged for up to 9 months under simultaneous thermal and radiation conditions. A sequential accident consisting of ...

Motorcycle accidents have somewhat different characteristics from accidents involving other classes of road user. They include in particular 'right of way' accidents, and accidents involving loss of control on curves or bends. A sample of 1790 accident cases was considered, including 1003 in ...

A committee was formed to identify norms and trends in remote control continuous miner crushing accidents as part of US MSHA's efforts to reduce and eliminate these types of accidents. The committee was tasked with collecting, reviewing, and evaluating remote control accident data to identify significant ...

INTRODUCTION: Roadway safety is a major concern for the general public and public agencies, as roadway crashes claim many lives and cause substantial economic loss each year. In Iran, a large number of vehicles are involved in road accidents each year, which cause many deaths and extensive property damage; such accidents are among the major causes of death ...

INTRODUCTION: The rate for work related accidents in the Spanish mining sector is notably higher than in other countries such as the United States. It produces a very negative impact on the mining industry. This paper is the report of a study on serious and fatal accidents in Spanish mining from 1982-2006. It is based on the reports of 212 ...

OBJECTIVES: Liquid manure systems and manure pits are major hazards in the agricultural workplace. The incidence of accidents related to manure is unknown. The objective of this study was to survey the liquid manure facilities of farms in eastern Switzerland and find the incidence of accidents related to manure in the region. METHODS: Retrospective cohort ...

Operating environments, such as road type, road location, and time of day, play an important role in the observed accident rates of heavy trucks used in general commerce. These same factors influence the accident rate of the Armored Tractor/Safe Secure Trailer (AT/SST) used by the Department of Energy to transport hazardous cargos ...

Most investigations of core meltdown scenarios in liquid metal fast breeder reactors (LMFBRs) have focused on accidents resulting from unprotected transients. In comparison, protected accidents which may lead to loss of core coolability and subsequent meltdown have received considerably less attention until recently. The sequence of events leading to the ...

This work analyses the labour accidents in the greenhouse-construction industry of SE Spain for the period 1999-2007 through a sample of 180 accident reports. The accidents were characterised by studying 5 variables in order to know the day of the week in which the accident occurred, the hour of the day of the ...

The types of accidents or risks pertinent to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) are presented. Design features addressing these risks are discussed. Also discussed are design features that protect the public. (DC)

To carry out the accident analyses for the HANARO, RELAP5/MOD2 was modified. The heat transfer correlations and other thermal hydraulic models to account for the finned fuel elements and plate-type heat exchangers were modified to give RELAP5/KMRR, simula...

This paper presents a summarized status report on the potential hazards of shipping nuclear materials. Principles of nuclear shipment safety, government regulations, shipment information, quality assurance, types of radioactive wastes, package integrity, packaging materials, number of shipments, accidents, and accident risk are ...

After the reactor accident at Three Mile Island, the Swedish nuclear power plants were equipped with filtered venting of the containment. Several types of accidents can be identified where the filtered venting has no effect on the radioactive release. The...

Historically, the U. S. Army has suffered more losses to accidents (including fratricide) than to enemy action while deployed in combat theaters. Typically, these accidents are the same types experienced in peacetime during exercises at home station and a...

This paper evaluates the performance of Poisson and negative binomial (NB) regression models in establishing the relationship between truck accidents and geometric design of road sections. Three types of models are considered. Poisson regression, zero-inf...

The likelihood of serious radiation iccidents is increased due to the rapid growth of nuclear technology in science, s briefly the possible causes of various types of radiation accidents. Suitable emergency programs are described. The acute laboratory aspects. Recent advances in therapy are described. (auth)

The preliminary report of nuclear accident at Chernobyl, in URSS is presented. The Chernobyl site is located geographically and the RBMK type reactors - initials of Russian words which mean high power pressure tube reactors are described. The conditions o...

... climbing accidents. Keywords: rock climbing, fall, rope, trauma, mountaineering, harness, accident Introduction Improvements in the safety equipment ... Union Internationale des Associations d'Alpinisme (...

The sequence of events and the consequences of the nuclear reactor accident at Chernobyl, USSR in April 1986 are reviewed. The background material in nuclear reactor and nuclear explosion physics required for understanding these events is extensively explained, and the differences between U.S. and Chernobyl-type reactors are pointed out.

In JAERI, a reactor accident diagnostic system using a method of knowledge engineering has been developed to identify the cause and type of an abnormal transient of a reactor plant. This system consists of a knowledge base and the inference engine named I...

Crisis handling in most kinds of disasters is affected by e.g. the information situation, prior experience and preparedness, availability of resources, efficiency of leadership and coordination, and type of disaster. A nuclear accident creates a situation...

This report is a first documentation of the KfK/PNS activities and plans to investigate the behaviour of steel containments under accident conditions. The investigations will deal with a free standing spherical containment shell built for the latest type ...

... possible occurrence after radiation accidents or radiological/nuclear terrorism (5). Antagonism of the renin-angiotensin system (RAS), ... for Radiation-Accident Preparedness: The Clinical Care of Victims...

This volume contains the Appendices to volumes 2, 3 and 4 to investigate the feasibility of developing effective countermeasures directed at specific alcohol related accidents or problems.

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...

List of Publications: Injuries due to hazardous materials accidents; Mechanisms of and facility types involved in hazardous materials accidents; Fitness for duty evaluations in hazardous materials firefighters; Fitness for duty evaluations in hazardous ma...

Although the probability of a sever accident with core melt is extremely low, it was decided ultimate measures at French PWRs to avoid or limit the consequences of this type of accident. In particular, the studies have shown that in some scenarios, the co...

The overall objective of the project was to utilize the pedestrian accident data to structure public education messages designed to reduce specific types of pedestrian accidents. It was the task of the present effort to execute the specific behavioral adv...

The overall objective of the project reported herein was to utilize the pedestrian accident data to structure the content, presentation and evaluation of public education messages designed to reduce specific types of pedestrian accidents. In order to guid...

Aviation accidents attributable to coronary artery disease have always generated undue publicity and alarm. Some workers in the field believe that flying (total hours flown) as well as type of aircraft affect the health of the coronary arteries. The prese...

This publication deals with the essences of the reactor accident in Chernobylsk and the conclusions to be drawn from these with regard to reactor safety. Therein the technical differences between the reactor types in the West and the East play an importan...

First, R.M.B.K type reactors are described. Then, safety problems are dealt with reactor control, behavior during transients, normal loss of power and behavior of the reactor in case of leak. A possible scenario of the accident of Tchernobyl is proposed: ...

A study was made to assess nuclear criticality safety in DOE Facilities and to assess the effects of various types of possible improvements. The accident statistics in DOE operations show that the fatalities caused by Nuclear Criticality accidents are sma...

Risk factors for sleepiness-related vehicle accidents have included, among others, time of accident, type of roadway, distance traveled, and reduced alertness. This study assessed risk factors for commuting incidents reported by air traffic controllers dr...

This analysis of accident data was designed to replicate and extend an earlier analysis that investigated the effects of different types of driver-side mirrors on lane-change accidents (Luoma, Sivak, and Flannagan, 1995). The present analysis was based on...

Scaffolding and floor/wall openings are common potential hazards at construction sites and account for a significant number of accidents, many resulting in fatalities. The major types of scaffolds used in construction is reviewed and accompanied by illust...

First, R.M.B.K type reactors are described. Then, safety problems are dealt with: reactor control, behavior during transients, normal loss of power and behavior of the reactor in case of leak. A possible scenario of the accident of Chernobyl is proposed: ...

Types of accidents and violations were compared for 1701 drivers with chronic medical conditions known to the California Department of Motor Vehicles and 921 drivers not known to have medical conditions. Drivers without medical conditions were found to be...

The data was gathered to obtain information on various impact modes and vehicle types through staged collisions for use in the CRASH 2 computer program. Vehicle and accident scene information from each test was collected for the purpose of improving crash...

The Accident Investigation Division (AID) of the National Center for Statistics and Analysis has been interested for several years in obtaining certain information on various impact modes and vehicle types through staged collisions. The specific data need...

The Accident Investigation Division (AID) of the National Center for Statistics and Analysis has been interested for several years in obtaining certain information on various impact modes and vehicle types through staged collisions. Collisions reported he...

An assessment of the radiological consequences that would result for the population of Greece from postulated major nuclear accidents in the Kozloduy nuclear power station in Bulgaria is performed. Kozloduy lies at a distance of 225 km from the northern borders of Greece and contains six reactors, all of the Russian WWER type. The postulated ...

This report is a compilation of all accidents world-wide involving aircraft in commercial service which resulted in the loss of the airframe or one or more fatality, or both. This information has been gathered in order to present a complete inventory of commercial aircraft accidents. Events involving military action, sabotage, terrorist bombings, ...

This report is a compilation of all accidents world-wide involving aircraft in commercial service which resulted in the loss of the airframe or one or more fatality, or both. This information has been gathered in order to present a complete inventory of commercial aircraft accidents. Events involving military action, sabotage, terrorist bombings, ...

The goal of this work is the search for an optimal accident management strategy to prevent containment failure and to stop the core/concrete interaction from hindering cavity bottom melt-through on the one hand and from ending the ex-vessel source term increase on the other hand, i.e., to terminate the accident. The work is based on the results of previous ...

This article analysed human factors involving train traffic accidents by using log-linear model. The results showed that lower degree of culture (OR = 2.571) and weak nervous type (OR = 2.099) were risk factors involving train traffic accidents. Interactions were shown to exist between nervous type and degree of ...

This article addresses the aftermath of the nuclear accident at Chernobyl in the Ukraine. It describes and explains the accident. The article also examines the type of reactor at Chernobyl and expresses concern about future accidents with similar Soviet�designed reactors in Eastern Europe. In addition, it ...

This report presents the results of an evaluation of the probabilities and consequences of accidents involving shipments of radioactive materials (RAM) contained in multiple Type A packages. On the basis of previous studies as well as highway and air accident experience, the exposure doses from three generic multiple-package shipments ...

The Class 9 type nuclear accident is defined and the Three Mile Island type accident and proposed Idaho National Engineering Laboratory experiment series are described in some detail. Different types of severe fuel damage experiments are briefly discussed in order to show typical measurement ...

Two of the primary goals of this study were (i) to check the structural and thermal performance of the GA-4 cask in a broad range of accidents and (ii) to carry out a severe-accidents analysis as had been addressed in the Modal Study but now using a specific recent cask design and using current-generation computer models and capabilities. At the same time, ...

Livestock vehicle accidents are rare but involve significant economic, human, and nonhuman farm animal losses. This study obtained information on the characteristics of accidents, the animals involved, and injuries to humans from newspaper reports about livestock vehicle accidents in Spain from January 2000 to December 2008. Most ...

This paper presents the methods for developing accident categories and accident frequencies for internally initiated accidents at hazardous waste storage facilities (HWSFs) at US Department of Energy (DOE) sites. This categorization is a necessary first step in evaluating the risk of accidents to workers and the ...

Despite the all precautions, underground coal mining is one of the dangerous industries owing to fatal occupational accidents. Accidents are complicated events to which many factors effect on their formation and preventing them is only possible by the analyses of the accident occurred in past and by straight evaluation of the obtained ...

The main features of domino accidents in process/storage plants and in the transportation of hazardous materials were studied through an analysis of 225 accidents involving this effect. Data on these accidents, which occurred after 1961, were taken from several sources. Aspects analyzed included the accident ...

The authors present statistics on mortality from accidents, with special reference to those relating to the age-group 1-19 years. For a number of countries figures are given for the proportional mortality from accidents (the number of accident deaths expressed as a percentage of the number of deaths from all causes) and for the ...

The source term can be mitigated by effective accident management. The goal of this work is the investigation of the influence of a number of accident management strategies on the source term of a VVER-1000-type reactor. This work is one of a series of studies investigating the behavior of a VVER-1000-type reactor ...

This report describes a conceptual approach for identifying dominant contributors to risk from maritime shipping of hazardous materials. Maritime transportation accidents are relatively common occurrences compared to more frequently analyzed contributors to public risk. Yet research on maritime safety and pollution incidents has not been guided by a systematic, risk-based ...

Half of all Swedish forests are owned by private individuals, and at least 215,000 people work in these privately owned forest holdings. However, only lethal accidents are systematically monitored among self-employed forest workers. Therefore, data from the registries of the Swedish Work Environment Authority, the Labor Insurance Organization and the regional University ...

This paper aims at addressing the interest and appropriateness of performing accident severity analyses that are limited to fatal accident data. Two methodological issues are specifically discussed, namely the accident-size factors (the number of vehicles in the accident and their level of occupancy) and the ...

Radiation emergency planning is discussed for emergencies resulting from the loss of control of radioactive materials such as spills of radioactive materials, fires, explosions, vehicular accidents, and energized equipment. It is pointed out that the extent and involvement in severity and type of radiation exposure, types and ...

An electrical accident was investigated in which a crafts person received serious injuries as a result of coming into contact with a 13.2 kilovolt (kV) electrical cable in the basement of Building 209 in Technical Area 21 (TA-21-209) in the Tritium Scienc...

Accident progression perspectives were gathered from the level 2 PRA analyses (the analysis of the accident after core damage has occurred involving the containment performance and the radionuclide release from the containment) described in the IPE submittals. Insights related to the containment failure modes, the releases associated with those failure ...

The accident occured at an intersection of an exit road of a city dump and a rural four-lane highway, at mid-day. A compact car making an illegal left turn was broadsided by a full-size car which in turn was hit by another full-size car. The accident caus...

The influence of the Doppler effect in the core disassembly process following a meltdown accident is examined with a Bethe-Tait type model in which the Doppler effect, as well as core disassembly, is considered in the reactor shutdown process. It is shown that a strong negative Doppler effect can radically reduce the explosive energy release in ...

In this study which is based on assumed types of accidents the short- and long-term effects to population and environment of Hameln that can be expected from medium and serious accidents in the nuclear power plant of Grohnde are described. It was shown th...

The purpose of the report is to set forth, comparatively, significant factors surrounding accidents in U. S. scheduled air carrier passenger operations during the calendar years 1951 and 1952. Detailed tabulations of accident causes, types, operational ph...

The publication contains statistical, cause/factor and injury tables, accident rates and the Briefs of Accidents involving U.S. Air Carriers and an analysis of the operation and safety record of these carriers by type of power and class of carrier. (Autho...

A severe accident study was conducted to evaluate conservatively scoped source terms and radiological consequences to support the Advanced Neutron Source (ANS) Conceptual Safety Analysis Report (CSAR). Three different types of severe accident scenarios we...