Title: US NRC progress in source term evaluation

Authors: Khurram Mehboob; Cao Xinrong; Raheel Ahmed

Addresses: College of Nuclear Science and Technology, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, China ' College of Nuclear Science and Technology, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, China ' College of Automation Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, China

Abstract: In this paper progress in the source term evaluation is presented. This paper presents the development of source term evaluation of Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs) for Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) for operation and licensing of the NPPs. Substantial research had been carried out by NRC, for this purpose. Nuclear Research and Development (R&D) agencies like ANL, NEA, ORNL, SNL, BCL and ANS incorporate with US NRC, and have published research reports on progress in risk assessments and source term evaluation of different accidental consequences in commercial NPPs.

Keywords: source term evaluation; NUREG-1465; TID-14844; NUREG-1150; WASH-1400; NUREG-0772; nuclear power plants; NPPs; probabilistic risk assessment; PRA; NPP operation; NPP licensing; nuclear energy; nuclear accidents; nuclear safety; radioactive material; pressure vessel failure.

DOI: 10.1504/IJNEST.2014.057874

International Journal of Nuclear Energy Science and Technology, 2014 Vol.8 No.1, pp.12 - 20

Received: 12 Oct 2012
Accepted: 21 Mar 2013
Published online: 24 Oct 2014 *

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