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Argonne opens registration for D&D training course
Registration is open for Argonne National Laboratory’s Facility Decommissioning Training Course, a four-day instruction designed for those responsible for the decontamination and decommissioning of nuclear facilities and who are looking to understand the full breadth and depth of the D&D processes.
The next session will be held July 16–19 in Santa Fe, N.M. Information on the course and how to register can be found here.
Jin Ho Song
Nuclear Technology | Volume 188 | Number 2 | November 2014 | Pages 113-122
Technical Paper | Reactor Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT13-125
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The Fukushima accident suggests that serious consideration must be given to changing current safety goals to properly address the major impacts of nuclear accidents on society, including health effects, property damage, and environmental contamination. Based on lessons learned from the Fukushima accident, a conceptual design and a new approach for implementing prevention and mitigation measures for severe accidents are proposed. Instead of an optimistic view on the progression of a severe accident and available resources, a worst-case scenario is considered to prepare for an unexpected situation. With a safety goal of practically eliminating the significant release of radioactive material, an improved approach for a prevention and mitigation strategy is proposed. This approach consists of a new severe accident management strategy with dedicated mitigation measures and suitable essential instrumentation to take timely recovery actions. The approach is designed to be more robust and resilient than the conventional system.