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... advanced reactors to withstand the effects of extreme ...of impact of a large commercial aircraft on base-isolated, large light water ...the base-isolated testbed, and c) ... See full document

... for aircraft impact has been developed; it has been validated against results from physical experiments before it is used for a complicated full- scale aircraft impact simulation of ... See full document

... form o f analysis. It is interesting to note that the consequences from the occurrence of ‘beyond-design-basis accidents’ were not fully addressed in the probabilistic risk analysis which amongst other external threats ... See full document

... Although not exhaustive of all parameter combinations, the analytical simulations employed were used to make general design recommendations for implementing SBI in new NPP structures. In these studies, potentially ... See full document

... the impact of aircraft on nuclear power ...Yucca nuclear waste treatment plant against aircraft ...the aircraft load is a conservative load, and the parameters that affect the ... See full document

... been base isolated to date, including six applications to nuclear power plants (NPPs): four in France and two in South Africa (Buckle et ...of base-isolated structures has been ... See full document

... Two locations in the ASB model were identified for investigation. The Control Room located in the ASB is the site at which the operators control and maintain observations over the entire system. If in the case of an ... See full document

... require aircraft impact assessment based on a single deterministic scenario in terms of load intensity, for example NRC (2011) and STUK (2013), which provide also the impact load function of the ... See full document

... from aircraft impact were usually not considered, explicitly, because nuclear power plant sites, for the most part, were chosen to be away from airports and, thus, outside of flight ...deliberate ... See full document

... At this point it is worth to mention that the tsunami induced force last for a period of time that is practically infinite in comparison to the eigenperiod of the isolated building. It means that, as opposed to ... See full document

... (CCM) developed by Hoeld [Hoeld, A., 2004a, A theoretical concept for a thermal-hydraulic 3D parallel channel core model. PHYSOR 2004, April 25–29, Chicago, USA; Hoeld, A., 2004b, Are separate-phase thermal-hydraulic ... See full document

... In this study, seismic response to the nonlinear SSI analysis of a NPP structure with base isolation were obtained using DHFTD analysis under the dynamic interaction concept of primary and secondary structures. It ... See full document

... modern nuclear industry demands meeting the following requirements: improved safety, reduced capital costs, radioactive waste (RW) management issues, independence of limited ..."BREST" reactors ... See full document

... The base isolated NPP stick model has shown great difference in the shear force resistance in the two cases of analysis; rigidly fixed and considering the pile foundation under the two set of ground ... See full document

... The base isolation is a technique used to protect the structure from earthquake by providing a flexible support to the ...of base isolation is to isolate superstructure from substructure so that motion of ... See full document

... Nuclear fission reactors are used as an energy source in many parts of the world, but it is only recently that the use of nuclear fusion as a possible power source is achieving some enc[r] ... See full document

... International Nuclear Event Score, matched only by Chernobyl, although most later estimates place the total release of radioactivity by the Fukushima disaster at approximately 10% of scale of ... See full document

... submarine nuclear propulsion system includes steam turbines, to which the steam is delivered from the cooling system of the ...all nuclear submarines are equipped with two-contour nuclear cycles ... See full document

... large nuclear reactors has been reviewed, analyzed, and re- evaluated to suit the small/medium scale nuclear reactor technology employed for powering large scale desalination ...scale nuclear ... See full document

... the aircraft. In the aircraft model, simplified component models for large fixed equipment and cargo containers were distributed in their appropriate locations throughout the ...given aircraft MTOW, ... See full document