Reactor Safety Analysis

A topic within Nuclear Engineering, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Engineering.

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Report of the President's Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island

President's Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island

Finds the equipment failure survivable and the response not: operators trained to follow procedures could not diagnose a plant whose instruments were telling them something no procedure covered.

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Reactor Safety Study: An Assessment of Accident Risks in U.S. Commercial Nuclear Power Plants

United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Introduced fault-tree and event-tree quantification of reactor risk, founding probabilistic risk assessment; its headline numbers were later disowned by the commission that published it.

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Report of the President's Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island

Reactor Safety Study: An Assessment of Accident Risks in U.S. Commercial Nuclear Power Plants

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