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Proving DRACO will deliver
The United States is now closer than it has been in over five decades to launching the first nuclear thermal rocket into space, thanks to DRACO—the Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Orbit.
Shih-Kuei Cheng
Nuclear Technology | Volume 84 | Number 3 | March 1989 | Pages 305-314
Technical Paper | Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Risk Management / Nuclear Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT89-A34214
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A model for the potential reactor coolant pump seal loss-of-coolant accident in a Westinghouse Electric Corporation pressurized water reactor following a loss of component cooling water (CCW) is developed based on state-of-the-art knowledge. The potential operator recovery actions in coping with a loss-of-CCW event are investigated, and an event tree is constructed to describe the possible core melt sequences. The sequence frequencies are plant specific; however, evaluations (of the sequence frequencies) demonstrate that an emergency operating procedure that clearly identifies possible recovery actions can reduce the core melt probability by two orders of magnitude.