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Two steps forward for U.K. advanced nuclear
This week, two significant announcements have emerged from the United Kingdom’s advanced reactor sector.
On June 14, Rolls-Royce, the United Kingdom National Nuclear Laboratory, and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency announced that they had signed two trilateral memorandums of cooperation to collaborate on “advanced modular reactor (AMR) technology, specifically high-temperature gas-cooled reactors (HTGR), and the coated particle fuel these reactors will use.”
Separately, on June 16, Bellevue, Wash.–based TerraPower announced that its Natrium reactor design has been formally submitted for U.K. regulatory review. The company also announced the formation of a new subsidiary, TerraPower UK Ltd.
Takeshi Matsuoka, Michiyuki Kobayashi, Kazuo Takemura
Nuclear Technology | Volume 84 | Number 3 | March 1989 | Pages 285-295
Technical Paper | Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Risk Management / Nuclear Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT89-A34212
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A reliability analysis using the GO-FLOW methodology is given for the emergency core cooling system (ECCS) of a marine reactor experiencing either a collision or a grounding accident. The analysis is an example of a phased mission problem, and the system is a relatively large system with 90 components. An overview of the GO-FLOW methodology, a description of the ECCS, and the analysis procedure are given. Time-dependent mission unreliabilities under three accident conditions are obtained by one GOFLOW chart with one computer run. The GO-FLOW methodology has proved to be a useful tool for probabilistic safety assessments of actual systems.