Safety Margins
PROSIR and LWR Reactor Pressure Vessel safety margins
... One of the key issue of ageing of nuclear power plants is the radiation effect on the reactor pressure vessel that leads to material embrittlement and can reduce the safety margins in case of pressurized ...
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Body size independent safety margins for gas exchange across grasshopper species
... rates and body size, as in the mealworm, Tenebrio molitor, (Loudon, 1988; Greenberg and Ar, 1996) and fruitflies (Frazier et al., 2001). Additionally, it is conceivable that even if natural selection operates to maintain ...
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An Empirical Assessment of the Role of Driver Motivation and Emotion State, and Driving Conditions in Perceived Safety Margins
... time safety margins in both THW and ...time safety margins when other vehicles around them were ...sufficient safety margin around them for safe maneuvers under abnormal/critical ...
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Testing and modelling of connections with post-installed undercut anchors under seismic loading - assessment of safety margins
... A new setup for the dynamic and cyclic testing of undercut anchors has been developed. This setup considers the complete system of anchors, anchor ground and component. Cracks in the concrete anchor ground can be ...
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The Effectiveness of Intraoperative Frozen Section Analysis of Safety Margins in Breast Conserving Surgery and the Role of Surgeon in Decreasing the Rate of Positive Margins
... This is a retrospective study conducted between 1 January 2010 till 29 February 2017, in Oncology Center—Mansoura University (OCMU), where the data of all patients with breast cancer who were exposed to BCS (Breast ...
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Differences in Safety Margins between Nuclear and Conventional Standards with Regard to Seismic Hazard Definition and Design Criteria
... the safety margins in nuclear buildings design in comparison to conventional buildings in order to increase the public confidence in the safety of nuclear power ...the safety philosophy behind ...
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Oxygen safety margins set thermal limits in an insect model system
... Harrison, 2005; Lease et al., 2006; Callier and Nijhout, 2012). Using thermolimit respirometry (TLR; Lighton and Turner, 2004), we investigated the two predictions of OCLTT relating to oxygen supply and aerobic scope in ...
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Safety Margins in Mechanical Integrity Assessments for Passive NPP Components
... the safety margins in the framework of the integrity assessment of mechanical ...The margins considered are basically those appearing in the mechanical integrity analysis of passive components of ...
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Evaluation of safety margins of Chenopodium albumseed decoction: 14-day subacute toxicity and microbicidal activity studies
... In our previous communications [4,5] we have dis- cussed the spermicidal potential and plausible mechan- ism of action of Chenopodium album seed decoction (CAD). But unambiguous establishment of sperm killing activity is ...
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Biophysics, environmental stochasticity, and the evolution of thermal safety margins in intertidal limpets
... statistical characteristics of stochastic variation in each environmental factor are constant through time. It is possible (perhaps likely) that climate change will result not only in shifts in average daily and seasonal ...
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Pushover Analysis for the Assessment of Seismic Safety Margins of Auxiliary Buildings
... Considering the building stock of Swiss NPP’s, the assumption can be made, that rather few buildings would be appropriate for displacement based methods. Numerous buildings are design comprising numerous large and ...
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A geometric and dynamic affordance model of reaches-to-grasp: Men take greater risks than women
... the Safety Margins exhibited in Maximum Grasp Apertures, during the approach of a hand to a target object, as a function of an affordance measure of object size and a functional measure of hand ...of ...
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Evaluation of Design Consistency on Horizontal Curves for Two-Lane State Roads in Terms of Vehicle Path Radius and Speed
... this safety criterion is based on determining the margin of ...of safety margins were analyzed in this ...the safety reasons, the 95 th ...
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Seismic Proving Test of Eroded Piping (K308)
... seismic safety margins for eroded piping designed under the current seismic design code, 2) to clarify the elasto-plastic response and ultimate strength of eroded nuclear ...
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High Temperature Leak Before Break Assessments
... The use of Leak Before Break (LbB) arguments is well established in the nuclear industry. A 'detectable leakage' LbB procedure, similar to that of NUREG 1061, is commonly used. Such a procedure is included in the UK R6 ...
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Ameloblastoma: Report of two Cases and A Brief Literature Review
... bleeding and a slow and progressive evolution of approximately six months; however, the time since the lesion was noticed was undetermined. No signs of facial asymmetry were noted on an extra-oral physical examination. ...
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Public Health Intervention Framework for Reviving Economy amid the COVID-19 Pandemic (2): Use of Personalized Mitigation Measures Beyond the Epidemiological Model Limits
... higher safety margins: (1) a larger distance may be used for social distancing between an immune-suppressed person and an infected person because the immune-suppressed person has diminished antiviral ...
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Theoretical investigations of two-phase flow and heat transfer in parallel multichannel core of a low power reactor
... could be experienced during the time of abnormal operations such as installation of a new core, addition of incorrect thickness of top Be plates in the Al tray located at the top of the core and insertion of ramp ...
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MATERIALS FOR ADVANCED FUSION AND FISSION REACTORS
... increased safety margins and design flexibility, in particular by providing increased tensile strength, thermal creep resistance and superior neutron radiation damage ...
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Analysis of Maximum Demand of Educational Buildings and its Impact on Electricity Bills
... the safety margins before reducing the CL and red bars are showing safety margins after reducing CL as per the data in table ...CL, safety margins were not reduced beyond the ...
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