Historical Perspectives and Insights on Nuclear Reactor Consequence Analyses

摘要

The paper begins with an overview of major contributions to consequence assessment to provide historical perspectives and insights on previous state-of-the-art analyses of the consequences of severe reactor accidents. It then discusses how the results and insights from the NUREG-1150 study, together- with recent advances in understanding of severe accident phenomenology arid containment failure mechanisms, could be used to update the results of such earlier Level-3 PRAs for comparison with aspects of State-Of-the-Art Reactor Consequence Analyses (SOARCA) results.