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5. PWR safety
The fundamental safety objective is to protect people and the environment from the harmful effects of ionizing radiation . It is therefore essential to confine radioactive materials within the facility. This is achieved by means of three independent and successive barriers: the cladding containing the nuclear fuel, the primary circuit and the reactor building enclosure. The demonstration of reactor safety relies in particular on the assessment of the performance of these three barriers. This demonstration must take into account not only all states of the reactor, from full-power operation to cold shutdown for recharging, but also the conditions that may result from any malfunction or event, from the...
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Bibliography
Websites
MIT open access course (2007)
Buongiorno, Jacopo. 22.313J Thermal Hydraulics in Power Technology. Spring 2007. Massachusetts Institute of...
Events
NURETH (NUclear REactor THermalhydraulics) conference every two years.
Regulations
Law no. 2006-686 of June 13, 2006 on nuclear transparency and safety (TSN).
Order of February 7, 2012 laying down the general rules governing basic nuclear installations (INB).
Law no. 2015-992 of August 17, 2015 on energy transition for green growth.
ASN Guide No. 22: Design of pressurized waterless reactors (2017).
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