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Base for second Hinkley Point C reactor completed
Concrete pour at the Hinkley Point C2 reactor. Photo: EDF Energy
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Item ID: 700379|ISBN: 978-0-89448-702-6
2013
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Description
This technical program reflects the excitement of the nuclear renaissance being led by the construction of new plants at the nearby V.C. Summer and Vogtle plants. PSA 2013 contains approximately 200 full papers with the following topics of interest: risk-informing operations/regulation, human reliability analysis, dynamic PSA, fire PSA, next-generation reactors, PSA education and training, low-power and shutdown PSA, advances in PSA data, flooding PSA, safety margins and risk management, aging management insights for PSA, and small modular reactors.
