reactor protection system (RPS) is a set of nuclear safety and security components in a nuclear power plant designed to safely shut down the reactor and...
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condition and prevent the release of radioactive material. A reactor protection system is designed to immediately terminate the nuclear reaction. By...
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Boiling water reactor safety systems are nuclear safety systems constructed within boiling water reactors in order to prevent or mitigate environmental...
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A boiling water reactor (BWR) is a type of light water nuclear reactor used for the generation of electrical power. It is the second most common type of...
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Framatome (redirect from Kerena boiling water reactor)
quality management system, organisation and safety culture were made. In 2020 Framatome won an order to deliver reactor protection systems for the Russian...
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Everything had been done according to the regulation demands... the reactor protection system designed to stop the fission in an emergency situation... played...
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RBMK (redirect from Light water graphite-moderated reactor)
reactor") is a class of graphite-moderated nuclear power reactor designed and built by the Soviet Union. It is somewhat like a boiling water reactor as...
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Nuclear power plant (section Systems)
(APS) is a thermal power station in which the heat source is a nuclear reactor. As is typical of thermal power stations, heat is used to generate steam...
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to the reactor coolant drain tank in the containment building basement. RCS pressure continued to rise, reaching the reactor protection system high-pressure...
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VVER-TOI (category Nuclear power reactor types)
production. Framatome is supplying reactor protection systems for the VVER-TOI reactors at Kursk II. The VVER-TOI reactor pressure vessel has fewer welds...
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reactor protection system were replaced. The control rooms were consequently adapted and new turbine controls installed. Furthermore, each reactor unit has...
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Chernobyl disaster (redirect from Chernobyl reactor accident)
Chernobyl disaster began on 26 April 1986 with the explosion of the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near the city of Pripyat in northern...
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event of primary hydraulic and ARI contingencies. A fully digital Reactor Protection System (RPS) (with redundant digital backups as well as redundant manual...
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A nuclear reactor is a device used to initiate and control a fission nuclear chain reaction or nuclear fusion reaction. Nuclear reactors are used at nuclear...
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CANDU (Canada Deuterium Uranium) is a Canadian pressurized heavy-water reactor design used to generate electric power. The acronym refers to its deuterium...
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Generation IV (Gen IV) reactors are nuclear reactor design technologies that are envisioned as successors of generation III reactors. The Generation IV International...
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Generation III reactors, or Gen III reactors, are a class of nuclear reactors designed to succeed Generation II reactors, incorporating evolutionary improvements...
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Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (category Nuclear power stations using RBMK reactors)
release, on June 6, 2009, at 09:15 EEST (06:15 UTC), the automatic reactor protection system was actuated and Unit 2 was shut down. No radiation was released...
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Transient Reactor Test Facility (TREAT) is an air-cooled, graphite moderated, thermal spectrum test nuclear reactor designed to test reactor fuels and...
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Scram (redirect from Trip, reactor)
"EPIS" at a CANDU reactor. In many cases, a scram is part of the routine shutdown procedure which serves to test the emergency shutdown system. There is no...
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amount of protection that a current limiting reactor offers depends upon the percentage increase in impedance that it provides for the system. The main...
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Small modular reactors (SMRs) are a class of small nuclear fission reactors, designed to be built in a factory, shipped to operational sites for installation...
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Nuclear Regulation (ONR) recommends the use of static analysis on reactor protection systems. Aviation software (in combination with dynamic analysis). Automotive...
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The B Reactor at the Hanford Site, near Richland, Washington, was the first large-scale nuclear reactor ever built. The project was a key part of the...
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California. The reactor operated from 1957 to 1964. On July 12, 1957 the Sodium Reactor Experiment became the first nuclear reactor in California to...
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auxiliary feed water system and reactor protection system. Unit 1 was operating at full power on 25 March 2005 when the reactor tripped on low-low water...
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Nuclear meltdown (redirect from Reactor meltdown)
accident occurs when the heat generated by a nuclear reactor exceeds the heat removed by the cooling systems to the point where at least one nuclear fuel element...
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8880556°N 72.7122222°W / 41.8880556; -72.7122222 The S1C reactor was a prototype naval reactor designed for the United States Navy to provide electricity...
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VVER (redirect from VVER reactors)
The water-water energetic reactor (WWER), or VVER (from Russian: водо-водяной энергетический реактор; transliterates as vodo-vodyanoi enyergeticheskiy...
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Nuclear Safety Center Nuclear power plant emergency response team Reactor protection system Nuclear safety in the United States Nuclear power in space Advanced...
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