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Anticipated and Abnormal Plant Transients in Light Water Reactors

Volume 1

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  • © 1984

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Editors:
  1. Pamela L. Lassahn

    1. Science Applications, Inc., Idaho Falls, USA

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  2. Debu Majumdar

    1. Department of Energy, Idaho Falls, USA

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  3. George F. Brockett

    1. Intermountain Technologies, Inc., Idaho Falls, USA

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Table of contents (68 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxviii
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  2. Transients — Abnormal and Otherwise

    1. Transients — Abnormal and Otherwise

      • Joseph M. Hendrie
      Pages 1-11

  3. Significance of Operational Transients

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-14
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    2. Opportunities for Practical Improvements in the Management of Plant Transients (Opening Address)

      • Edwin L. Zebroski
      Pages 15-28

    3. Operational Transients, A Definition

      • C. Frederick Sears
      Pages 29-34

    4. The Risk from Transients According to Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA)

      • B. John Garrick, Vicki M. Bier
      Pages 35-44

    5. The Economic Impact of Reactor Transients

      • A. D. Rossin, Gary L. Vine
      Pages 45-52

    6. Questions and Answers Significance of Operational Transients

      • Pamela L. Lassahn, Debu Majumdar, George F. Brockett
      Pages 53-56

  4. Plant Transient Experience Base

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-58
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    2. How does the NRC Treat Operational Experience and What is it Telling Us?

      • Thomas A. Ippolito
      Pages 59-68

    3. What is Our Experience in Plant Transients Telling Us?

      • Stephen L. Rosen
      Pages 69-76

    4. The NEA Incident Reporting System : Description, Experience, First Results

      • B. Fourest, C. Giroux, Y. Otsuka
      Pages 77-86

    5. PWR — Experience in Operational Transients — French Program 1981 – 1982 Results

      • R. Capel
      Pages 87-96

    6. Experience with Transients in German NPPs

      • E. Lindauer
      Pages 97-105

    7. Experience in Plant Transients the Swedish RKS Program

      • Jean-Pierre Bento
      Pages 107-116

    8. Taipower Experience in Plant Transients

      • Peng-Chang Chen
      Pages 117-124

    9. Questions and Answers Plant Transient Experience Base

      • Pamela L. Lassahn, Debu Majumdar, George F. Brockett
      Pages 125-130

  5. Anatomy of Selected Operational Transients

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-132
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    2. Ginna Steam Generator Tube Rupture

      • Robert C. Mecredy
      Pages 133-142

    3. Rancho Seco “Light Bulb Incident”

      • Ron Colombo
      Pages 143-151
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About this book

Over the last 30 years, reactor safety technology has evolved not so much from a need to recover from accidents or incidents, but primarily from many groups in the nuclear community asking hypo­ thetical, searching (what if) ~uestions. This ~uestioning has indeed paid off in establishing preventive measures for many types of events and potential accidents. Conditions, such as reactivity excursions, large break, loss of coolant, core melt, and contain­ ment integrity loss, to name a few, were all at one time topics of protracted discussions on hypothesized events. Historically, many of these have become multiyear, large-scale research programs aimed at resolving the "what ifs. " For the topic of anticipated and abnormal plant transients, how­ ever, the searching ~uestions and the research were not so prolific until the mid-1970s. At that time, probabilistic risk methodolo­ gies began to tell us we should change our emphasis in reactor safety research and development and focus more on small pipe breaks and plant transients. Three Mile Island punctuated that message in 1979. The plant transient topic area is a multidisciplinary subject involving not only the nuclear, fluid flow, and heat transfer technologies, but also the synergistics of these with the reactor control systems, the safety s;,"stems, operator actions, maintenance and even management and the economic considerations of a given plant.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Science Applications, Inc., Idaho Falls, USA

    Pamela L. Lassahn

  • Department of Energy, Idaho Falls, USA

    Debu Majumdar

  • Intermountain Technologies, Inc., Idaho Falls, USA

    George F. Brockett

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Anticipated and Abnormal Plant Transients in Light Water Reactors

  • Book Subtitle: Volume 1

  • Editors: Pamela L. Lassahn, Debu Majumdar, George F. Brockett

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4799-6

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1984

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4684-4801-6Published: 03 October 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4684-4799-6Published: 11 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVIII, 724

  • Number of Illustrations: 68 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Nuclear Energy

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