Nuclear Safety
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Lectures
Exercises
Laboratory exercises
Course Description
Safety principles in the design and operation of a nuclear power plant. International and national regulations. Power plant safety report and environmental impact report. Systematization and classification of faults/accidents. Methods for safety analyses. Deterministic safety analyzes. Modeling of nuclear power plant components and systems. Thermohydraulic system and core calculations. Thermal and mechanical calculation of fuel. Analysis of design basis accidents. Severe reactor accidents. Fire and external fault initiators (seismic). Analysis of the discharge of radioactive material from a nuclear power plant (leakage of containment, dispersion into the environment, radiological consequences). Safety assessment of radioactive waste storage.
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Learning Outcomes
- Describe the basic safety concerns of nuclear power plants
- Explain the defence-in-depth strategy
- Apply existing safety analysis programs
- Prepare input data for simple safety calculations
- Classify different nuclear accidents
- Analyze calculation results with system codes
- Assess the radiological impact of the plant operation on the environment
- Analyze the importance of probabilistic safety analyzes
Forms of Teaching
Lectures
Lectures will provide a theoretical background to the students.
ExercisesThese will be used to solve numerical examples to the students.
LaboratorySolving practical examples using computer simulation.
Grading Method
Continuous Assessment | Exam | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Type | Threshold | Percent of Grade | Threshold | Percent of Grade | ||
Homeworks | 0 % | 15 % | 0 % | 15 % | ||
Mid Term Exam: Written | 0 % | 30 % | 0 % | |||
Final Exam: Written | 0 % | 45 % | ||||
Final Exam: Oral | 10 % | |||||
Exam: Written | 0 % | 75 % | ||||
Exam: Oral | 10 % |
Week by Week Schedule
- Defence in depth concept, active and passive safety, Redundancy, diversity, physical separation, single failure criteria
- Environmental and equipment qualification, Control systems, process and nuclear instrumentation
- Reactor protections systems, set-points, margins, Engineering safety features, critical safety functions
- Thermal and mechanical model of fuel rod (fuel and cladding temparatues, cladding integrity), Two phase fluid flow and heat transfer, critical heat flow, critical mass velocity
- Condensation, noncondesables, aerosol behavior, H2 burn, Control volume concept and 6-equations 1D two phase flow models
- Nodal neutron diffuison codes and coupling
- Containment models and severe accident integrated codes
- Midterm exam
- In-vessel phase, Core degradation and melt, Fuel cladding oxidation; Hydrogen release
- Ex-vessel phase; Containment behaviour, Reactor pressure vessel and containment integrity, NPP severe accidents (TMI, Chernobyl, Fukushima)
- Geology, liquefaction, and seismic requirements, Hydrology, floods, weather conditions, Population density, transpot and industrial objects
- Primary and secondary source term, release categories for gas and liquid effluents
- Atmospheric dispersion, migration of radioactive material in soil, Protective action guidelines for sheltering, evacuation, relocation
- Bilogical effects of radioactive materials, health risk
- Final exam
Literature
(.), E.E. Lewis (1978.), Nuclear Power Reactor Safety, John Wiley,
(.), Gianni Petrangeli (2006.), Nuclear Safey, Butterworth-Heinemann,
(.), B. Pershagen (1989.), Light Water Reactor Safety, Pergamon Press,
For students
General
ID 222516
Winter semester
5 ECTS
L1 English Level
L1 e-Learning
30 Lectures
0 Seminar
15 Exercises
8 Laboratory exercises
0 Project laboratory
0 Physical education excercises
Grading System
90 Excellent
75 Very Good
60 Good
50 Sufficient