Safety requirements for the design of containment systems are presented in a generic form. The various functions of confinement, isolation, energy management, radionuclide management and combustible gas control as well as the structural and leak integrity are covered. Annexes provide examples for the most common design solutions and other aspects.
This book consist : Introduction; Design principles; Postulated initiating events; and Design features. (Jml)
This publication states the fundamental safety objective and ten associated safety principles, and briefly describes their intent and purpose. The fundamental safety objective — to protect people and the environment from harmful effects of ionizing radiation — applies to all circumstances that give rise to radiation risks. The safety principles are applicable, as relevant, throughout the en…
This Safety Guide addresses the subject of how to meet the requirements for the decommissioning of medical, industrial and research facilities where radioactive materials and sources are produced, received, used and stored. It provides guidance to national authorities and operating organizations, particularly to those in developing countries (as such facilities are predominant in these countrie…
The purpose of this series of annually published volumes of which the earlier issues were supplements to the Nuclear Fusion journal is to publish original contributions and review articles containing high quality data on the atomic and plasma-material interaction processes of interest to thermonuclear fusion research. The scientific scope of the series includes the topics of elementary ato…
This volume presents recent progress in the improvement of the nuclear database needed for the development of Generation IV nuclear energy systems. The Generation IV International Forum (GIF) identified six advanced concepts for sustainable nuclear energy production at competitive prices and with advanced safety, with special attention to nuclear non-proliferation and physical protection iss…
INSAG has prepared this report in accordance with its terms of reference “to formulate, where possible, commonly shared safety concepts”. The understanding and application of these safety principles should improve safety and benefit everyone, especially those in countries that use or intend to use nuclear power as an energy source
This Safety Guide provides guidance and recom m endations on surveillance activities to ensure that structures, systems and com ponents im portant to safety are available to perform their functions in accordance w ith design intent and assumptions. The Guide was prepared as part of the IAEA’s programme, referred to as the NUSS Programme, for establishing Codes of Practice and Safety Guides re…
Nuclear power plants of the light water reactor (LWR) type are so designed and operated that no accident reasonably considered to be possible would release significant amounts of fission products to the environment. It follows that rare improbable events such as severe accidents would provide the only potentially significant contribution to adverse human health effects. The potential for such s…
Modern Physics is the most up-to-date, accessible presentation of modern physics available. The book is intended to be used in a one-semester course covering modern physics for students who have already had basic physics and calculus courses. The balance of the book leans more toward ideas than toward experimental methods and practical applications because the beginning student is better served…