Chapter Eight: Safety
Abstract
Discussion of important hybrid safety characteristics, including
a. In-depth protection
b. Key capabilities
c. Core cooling methods
d. Reactor heat removal
e. Decay heat removal
f. Passive barriers
contrasts safety characteristics of key reactor and power plant types, culminating in grading and ranking of major reactor and power plants types.
Keywords
Defense-in-depth; Fail-safe; Diverse; Redundant; Cooling; Proliferation; Safety; Risk; Contrasts
Historical perspective
The production of power has always involved friction between economics and adverse public health impacts typically associated with pollution ...
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