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In commercial nuclear power, there has always been a deliberate tension between the regulator and the utility owner. The regulator fundamentally exists to protect the worker, and the utility, to make a profit. It is a win-win balance.
From the U.S. nuclear industry has emerged a brilliantly successful occupational nuclear safety record—largely the result of an ALARA (as low as reasonably achievable) process that has driven exposure rates down to what only a decade ago would have been considered unthinkable. In the U.S. nuclear industry, the system has accomplished an excellent, nearly seamless process that succeeds to the benefit of both employee and utility owner.
Pedro Mata, Pablo García Sedano, Juan Serra
Nuclear Technology | Volume 100 | Number 2 | November 1992 | Pages 203-215
Technical Paper | Nuclear Reactor Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT92-A34743
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The applicability and usefulness of a complete and well-qualified plant transient code and model to support in-depth evaluation of anomalous plant transients are described. The qualified best-estimate RETRAN-02 model for the Cofrentes nuclear power plant (a boiling water reactor with an uprated power of 2952 MW) has been updated for RETRAN-03 using algebraic slip and one-dimensional kinetics. This model has been used in the analysis of recent abnormal plant transients at Cofrentes, including a partial control rod insertion at 92% power, a turbine trip at 67% power with reactor vessel overfill, and reactor instabilities during startup.
