When designing a nuclear power plant and its fuel, certain accidents are postulated to occur with a predetermined low frequency. The consequences of these accidents are mitigated by various passive and active safety features, and an adequate safety level is implemented by the regulatory authority in the safety requirements. The dissertation considers computational modelling of two main design basis accidents in current light water reactors: loss-of-coolant accident (abbreviated LOCA) and reactivity initiated accident (RIA). The applied computer programmes are designed for modelling the behaviour of a single fuel rod in transient and accident conditions. LOCA modelling is focused on developing a statistical analysis methodology for the eva...
Probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) is an important tool in assessing the safety of a nuclear power ...
Recriticality in a BWR during reflooding of an overheated partly degraded core, i.e. with relocated ...
A way to confine potential consequences of an accident in a nuclear reactor is to limit the number o...
When designing a nuclear power plant and its fuel, certain accidents are postulated to occur with a ...
The Loviisa nuclear power plant consists of two VVER-440 units, which are Russian-type pressurized l...
In this paper, the number of failing fuel rods in a large break loss-of-coolant accident (LB-LOCA) i...
Loss of coolant accidents (LOCA) mean those postulated accidents that result from the loss of reacto...
A statistical fuel failure analysis procedure has been developed, and now applied in full scale to a...
During operation of nuclear power reactors reactivity initiated accidents (RIA) can occur, such as a...
This study presents a framework merging failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) and fault tree analy...
This Thesis develops a framework of how to incorporate reliability analysis of a safety function or ...
VTT acquires and maintains independent calculation tools to be applied to fuel performance analyses ...
This Thesis surveys how phenomenological uncertainties are modeled in level 2 probabilistic safety a...
A statistical fuel failure analysis procedure has been developed, and now applied in full scale to a...
The loss-of-coolant accident (LOCA) simulation in the boiling water reactor (BWR) of Laguna Verde Nu...
Probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) is an important tool in assessing the safety of a nuclear power ...
Recriticality in a BWR during reflooding of an overheated partly degraded core, i.e. with relocated ...
A way to confine potential consequences of an accident in a nuclear reactor is to limit the number o...
When designing a nuclear power plant and its fuel, certain accidents are postulated to occur with a ...
The Loviisa nuclear power plant consists of two VVER-440 units, which are Russian-type pressurized l...
In this paper, the number of failing fuel rods in a large break loss-of-coolant accident (LB-LOCA) i...
Loss of coolant accidents (LOCA) mean those postulated accidents that result from the loss of reacto...
A statistical fuel failure analysis procedure has been developed, and now applied in full scale to a...
During operation of nuclear power reactors reactivity initiated accidents (RIA) can occur, such as a...
This study presents a framework merging failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) and fault tree analy...
This Thesis develops a framework of how to incorporate reliability analysis of a safety function or ...
VTT acquires and maintains independent calculation tools to be applied to fuel performance analyses ...
This Thesis surveys how phenomenological uncertainties are modeled in level 2 probabilistic safety a...
A statistical fuel failure analysis procedure has been developed, and now applied in full scale to a...
The loss-of-coolant accident (LOCA) simulation in the boiling water reactor (BWR) of Laguna Verde Nu...
Probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) is an important tool in assessing the safety of a nuclear power ...
Recriticality in a BWR during reflooding of an overheated partly degraded core, i.e. with relocated ...
A way to confine potential consequences of an accident in a nuclear reactor is to limit the number o...