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Summary data for U. S. commercial nuclear power plants in the United States

Description: A compilation of data is presented for all United States commercial nuclear power plants for which a construction permit application was made through the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The data are compiled in four separate tables with cross-referencing indexes: Table 1--General Data; Table 2--Reactor Data; Table 3--Site Data, and Table 4--Circulating-Water System Data. The power plants are listed in numerical order by docket number in all four tables.
Date: March 20, 1978
Creator: Heddleson, F.A.
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Detection and diagnosis of abnormal transients in nuclear power plants

Description: This document describes a simulation-based algorithm that combines fuzzy logic with macroscopic conservation equations to diagnose multiple-failure events subject to uncertainties in transient data. Clusters of single-failure data points of similar characteristics are obtained through a pattern recognition algorithm and the cluster centers are combined in the space of macroscopic inventory derivatives to generate multiple-failure cluster centers. A fuzzy membership function is used to represent… more
Date: January 1, 1991
Creator: Lee, J. C.; Rank, P. J.; Hawkes, E.; Wehe, D. K. (Michigan Univ., Ann Arbor, MI (United States). Dept. of Nuclear Engineering) & Reifman, J. (Argonne National Lab., IL (United States))
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Physical protection solutions for security problems at nuclear power plants. [PWR; BWR]

Description: Under Department of Energy sponsorship, Sandia National Laboratories has developed a broad technological base of components and integrated systems to address security concerns at facilities of importance, including nuclear reactors. The primary security concern at a light water reactor is radiological sabotage, a deliberate set of actions at a plant which could expose the public to a significant amount of radiation (on the order of 10 CFR 100 limits). (Also of importance to plant operators are … more
Date: September 1, 1980
Creator: Darby, J.L. & Jacobs, J.
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Report on emergency electrical power supply systems for nuclear fuel cycle and reactor facilities security systems

Description: The report includes information that will be useful to those responsible for the planning, design and implementation of emergency electric power systems for physical security and special nuclear materials accountability systems. Basic considerations for establishing the system requirements for emergency electric power for security and accountability operations are presented. Methods of supplying emergency power that are available at present and methods predicted to be available in the future ar… more
Date: January 1, 1977
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Evaluation of soil damping techniques used in soil structure interaction analysis of a nuclear power plant

Description: A prediction of dynamic soil properties at the site of a nuclear power plant plays a very important role in the seismic analysis of the facility. Conventional modal analysis procedures can accommodate virtually any range of equivalent elastic soil stiffness which is used to characterize the site. However, high radiation damping associated with energy dissipation in the soil half-space is difficult to accommodate in an elastic modal solution to the dynamic problem. Several methods are available … more
Date: February 24, 1982
Creator: Nelson, T.A.
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Public opinion factors regarding nuclear power

Description: This paper is an effort to identify, as comprehensively as possible, public concerns about nuclear power, and to assess, where possible, the relative importance of these concerns as they relate to government regulation of and policy towards nuclear power. It is based on some two dozen in-depth interviews with key communicators representing the nuclear power industry, the environmental community, and government, as well as on the parallel efforts in our research project: (1) review of federal co… more
Date: January 1, 1991
Creator: Benson, B.
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Population dose commitments due to radioactive releases from nuclear-power-plant sites in 1978

Description: Population radiation dose commitments have been estimated from reported radionuclide releases from commercial power reactors operating during 1978. Fifty-year dose commitments from a one-year exposure were calculated from both liquid and atmospheric releases for four population groups (infant, child, teen-ager and adult) residing between 2 and 80 km from each site. This report tabulates the results of these calculations, showing the dose commitments for both liquid and airborne pathways for eac… more
Date: June 1, 1982
Creator: Peloquin, R. A.; Schwab, J. D. & Baker, D. A.
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High-definition television evaluation for remote handling task performance

Description: This paper describes experiments designed to evaluate the impact of HDTV on the performance of typical remote tasks. The experiments described in this paper compared the performance of four operators using HDTV with their performance while using other television systems. The experiments included four television systems: (1) high-definition color television, (2) high-definition monochromatic television, (3) standard-resolution monochromatic television, and (4) standard-resolution stereoscopic mo… more
Date: January 1, 1986
Creator: Fujita, Y.; Omori, E.; Hayashi, S.; Draper, J.V. & Herndon, J.N.
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Data report of a pretest analysis of soil-structure interaction and structural response in low-amplitude explosive testing (50 KG) of the heissdampfreaktor (HDR)

Description: This report describes a three-dimensional nonlinear TRANAL finite element analysis of a nuclear reactor subjected to ground shaking from a buried 50 kg explosive source. The analysis is a pretest simulation of a test event which was scheduled to be conducted in West Germany on 3 November 1979.
Date: November 29, 1979
Creator: Vaughan, D.K.; Sandler, I.; Rubin, D.; Isenberg, J. & Nikooyeh, H.
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Public opinion and nuclear power decision-making

Description: This document discusses public opinion regarding nuclear power which is particularly difficult to tie down because of five important paradoxes that characterize it: it can be based on sound reason, but also on intense emotion; it is both national and local in perspective; at varying times it has seen nuclear power as both clean'' and dirty''; it believes nuclear power is both economic, and uneconomic; and nuclear power is perceived as having a fairly safe record, but being potentially unsafe. E… more
Date: August 6, 1991
Creator: Benson, B.
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Financial and ratepayer impacts of nuclear power plant regulatory reform

Description: Three reports - ''The Future Market for Electric Generating Capacity,'' ''Quantitative Analysis of Nuclear Power Plant Licensing Reform,'' and ''Nuclear Rate Increase Study'' are recent studies performed by the Los Alamos National Laboratory that deal with nuclear power. This presents a short summary of these three studies. More detail is given in the reports.
Date: January 1, 1985
Creator: Turpin, A. G.
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System for unattended surveillance of nuclear reactor behavior

Description: A multivariate statistical pattern recognition system for reactor noise analysis is presented. The basis of the system is a transformation for decoupling correlated variables and algorithms for inferring probability density functions. The system is adaptable to a variety of statistical properties of the data, and it has learning, tracking, updating, and dimensionality reduction capabilities. System design emphasizes control of the false-alarm rate. Its abilities to learn normal patterns and to … more
Date: January 1, 1977
Creator: Gonzalez, R. C. & Howington, L. C.
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Assessment of nuclear power plant siting methods

Description: Several different methods have been developed for selecting sites for nuclear power plants. This report summarizes the basic assumptions and formal requirements of each method and evaluates conditions under which each is correctly applied to power plant siting problems. It also describes conditions under which different siting methods can produce different results. Included are criteria for evaluating the skill with which site-selection methods have been applied.
Date: November 1, 1979
Creator: Rowe, M. D.; Hobbs, B. F.; Pierce, B. L. & Meier, P. M.
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Meeting commercial reactor instrumentation needs

Description: Commercial nuclear reactors are instrumented for two reasons: (1) to provide information to the operators, and (2) to support automatic safety systems. The key questions the operators want answered are: Is the core being cooled and what is the temperature. Two instruments currently installed in LOFT are providing these answers. The commercial application of liquid level probes and fuel thermocouples will undoubtably bring argument from some quarters, but properly working instruments of their ty… more
Date: January 1, 1980
Creator: Stanley, M.L.
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Evaluation of station blackout accidents at nuclear power plants: Technical findings related to unresolved safety issue A-44: Final report

Description: ''Station Blackout,'' which is the complete loss of alternating current (AC) electrical power in a nuclear power plant, has been designated as Unresolved Safety Issue A-44. Because many safety systems required for reactor core decay heat removal and containment heat removal depend on AC power, the consequences of a station blackout could be severe. This report documents the findings of technical studies performed as part of the program to resolve this issue. The important factors analyzed inclu… more
Date: June 1, 1988
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Comparison of site evaluation methods

Description: This report presents results of tests of different final site selection methods used for siting large-scale facilities such as nuclear power plants. Test data are adapted from a nuclear power plant siting study conducted on Long Island, New York. The purpose of the tests is to determine whether or not different final site selection methods produce different results, and to obtain some understanding of the nature of any differences found. Decision rules and weighting methods are included. Decisi… more
Date: August 1, 1979
Creator: Rowe, M. D. & Pierce, B. L.
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Validation of the kinetic model for predicting the composition of chlorinated water discharged from power plant cooling systems

Description: The purpose of this report is to present a validation of a previously described kinetic model which was developed to predict the composition of chlorinated fresh water discharged from power plant cooling systems. The model was programmed in two versions: as a stand-alone program and as a part of a unified transport model developed from consistent mathematical models to simulate the dispersion of heated water and radioisotopic and chemical effluents from power plant discharges. The results of te… more
Date: October 31, 1977
Creator: Lietzke, M. H.
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Advanced nuclear reactor public opinion project

Description: This Interim Report summarizes the findings of our first twenty in-depth interviews in the Advanced Nuclear Reactor Public Opinion Project. We interviewed 6 industry trade association officials, 3 industry attorneys, 6 environmentalists/nuclear critics, 3 state officials, and 3 independent analysts. In addition, we have had numerous shorter discussions with various individuals concerned about nuclear power. The report is organized into the four categories proposed at our April, 1991, Advisory G… more
Date: July 25, 1991
Creator: Benson, B.
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Nuclear power options viability: Oak Ridge National Laboratory's study

Description: Seven criteria, augmented by desired characteristics, were established to assess the viability of nuclear reactors for the timeframe beginning at 2005 for the United States. Earlier nuclear power needs will be filled by LWRs. Several advanced concepts were selected, based on three ground rules, and assessed. It was concluded that there are several acceptable and viable concepts.
Date: January 1, 1986
Creator: Gat, U.; Trauger, D.B. & White, J.D.
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Soil-Structure Interaction Methods, SIM Code. Volume III

Description: The Structure In Media (SIM) Code determines the response of a structure, embedded in soil/rock media, to a specified dynamic disturbance in the media. The structure is modeled as a series of lumped mass, elastic beams which may be interconnected with elastic springs. The disturbance in the free field is specified in terms of an accelerogram, the scale of which may vary with depth. Soil/structure interaction is treated in two parts. The first determines the interaction forces developed at the b… more
Date: September 1, 1979
Creator: Miller, C. A. & Costantino, C. J.
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Design data and safety features of commercial nuclear power plants. Vol. I. Docket No. 50-3 through 50-295

Description: BS>Design data, safety features, and site characteristics are summarized for thirty-two commercial nuclear power plants in the United States. Six pages of data are presented for each plant consisting of Thermal-Hydraulic and Nuclear Factors, Containment Features, Emergency Core Cooling Systems, Site Features, Circulating Water System Data, and Miscellaneous Factors. An aerial perspective is also presented for each plant. Those covered in this volume are Indian Point No. 1, Docket Number 50-3… more
Date: December 1, 1973
Creator: Heddleson, F. A.
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Evaluation of Inservice Inspection Examinatiions

Description: In order to evaluate the effectiveness of Section 11, Division 1, Rules for Inservice Inspection of Nuclear Power Plant Components,'' of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code examinations, 26 inservice inspection (ISI) summary reports from 24 facilities were reviewed. It was found that these ASME Code examinations and tests are instrumental in revealing indications and defects in welds and plant components. In addition, this study uncovered that fac… more
Date: May 1990
Creator: Aldrich, D. A. & Cook, J. F.
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MAPPS (Maintenance Personnel Performance Simulation): a computer simulation model for human reliability analysis

Description: A computer model has been developed, sensitivity tested, and evaluated capable of generating reliable estimates of human performance measures in the nuclear power plant (NPP) maintenance context. The model, entitled MAPPS (Maintenance Personnel Performance Simulation), is of the simulation type and is task-oriented. It addresses a number of person-machine, person-environment, and person-person variables and is capable of providing the user with a rich spectrum of important performance measures … more
Date: January 1, 1985
Creator: Knee, H.E. & Haas, P.M.
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