Nuclear Safeguard Management of Operation Security in Nuclear Power Plants

Taeho Woo
Additional contact information
Taeho Woo: Seoul National University

Chapter Chapter 10 in Atomic Information Technology, 2012, pp 119-134 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Safeguard modeling is developed for the successful operations in the nuclear power plants (NPPs). The characteristics of the secure operation in NPPs are investigated using the network effect method which is quantified by the Monte-Carlo algorithm. Fundamentally, it is impossible to expect the time of terror incident exactly. So, the random sampling for the event frequency is a reasonable method including the characteristics of network effect method incorporated with the zero-sum quantification. The performance of operation with safeguard is the major concern of the study. There are three kinds of considerations as the neutronics, thermo-hydraulics, and safeguard properties which are organized as an aspect of safeguard considerations. The result, therefore, can give the stability of the operations when the power is decided. The maximum value of secure operation is the 12.0 in third month and the minimum value is 1.0 in 18th and 54th month in 10 years. So, the stability of the secure power operation increases 12 times higher than the lowest value in this study. This means the secure operation is changeable in the designed NPPs and the dynamical situation of the secure operation is shown to the operator.

Keywords: Nuclear power plants; Safeguard; Power uprate; Network effect; Monte-carlo algorithm (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:ssrchp:978-1-4471-4030-6_10

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9781447140306

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4471-4030-6_10

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Springer Series in Reliability Engineering from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().