151-0156-00L Technology and Safety of Nuclear Power Plants
| Semester | Frühjahrssemester 2023 |
| Dozierende | A. Manera |
| Periodizität | jährlich wiederkehrende Veranstaltung |
| Lehrsprache | Englisch |
| Kommentar | Note: The previous course title until FS22 "Safety of Nuclear Power Plants". |
| Kurzbeschreibung | Knowledge about safety concepts and requirements of nuclear power plants and their implementation in deterministic safety concepts and safety systems. Knowledge about behavior under accident conditions and about the methods of probabilistic risk analysis and how to handle results. Introduction into key elements of the enhanced safety of nuclear systems for the future. |
| Lernziel | Deep understanding of safety requirements, concepts and system of nuclear power plants, knowledge of deterministic and probabilistic methods for safety analysis, aspects of nuclear safety research, licensing of nuclear power plant operation. Overview on key elements of the enhanced safety of nuclear systems for the future. |
| Inhalt | (1) Introduction into the specific safety issues of nuclear power plants, main facts of health effects of ionizing radiation, defense in depth approach. (2) Reactor protection and reactivity control, reactivity induced accidents (RIA). (3) Loss-of-coolant accidents (LOCA), emergency core cooling systems. (4) Short introduction into severe accidents (Beyond Design Base Accidents, BDBA). (5) Probabilistic risk analysis (PRA level 1,2,3). (6) Passive safety systems. (7) Safety of innovative reactor concepts. |
| Skript | Script: Hand-outs of lecture slides will be distributed Script "Short introduction into basics of nuclear power" |
| Literatur | S. Glasston & A. Sesonke: Nuclear Reactor Engineering, Reactor System Engineering, Ed. 4, Vol. 2., Chapman & Hall, NY, 1994 |
| Voraussetzungen / Besonderes | Prerequisites: Recommended in advance (not binding): 151-0163-00L Nuclear Energy Conversion |