The second edition of Nuclear Safety provides the most up to date methods and data needed to evaluate the safety of nuclear facilities and related processes using risk-informed safety analysis, and provides readers with new techniques to assess the consequences of radioactive releases. Gianni Petrangeli provides applies his wealth of experience to expertly guide the reader through an analysis of nuclear safety aspects, and applications of various well-known cases. Since the first edition was published in 2006, the Fukishima 2011 inundation and accident has brought a big change in nuclear safety experience and perception. This new edition addresses lessons learned from the Fukishima 2011 accident, provides further examples of nuclear safety application and includes consideration of the most recent operational events and data.

This thoroughly updated resource will be particularly valuable to industry technical managers and operators and the experts involved in plant safety evaluation and controls. This book will satisfy generalists with an ample spectrum of competences, specialists within the nuclear industry, and all those seeking for simple plant modelling and evaluation methods.

New to this edition:

• Up to date analysis on recent events within the field, particularly events at Fukushima
• Further examples of application on safety analysis
• New ways to use the book through calculated examples.

Feature

• Covers all plant components and potential sources of risk, including human, technical and natural factors
• Brings together, in a single source, information on nuclear safety normally only found in many different sources
• Provides up-to date international design and safety criteria and an overview of regulatory regimes

1. Introduction 2. Inventory and localisation of radioactive products in the plant 3. Safety systems and their functions 4. Classification of accidents and discussion of some examples 5. Severe accidents 6. Dispersion of radioactive releases 7. Health consequences of releases 8. The general approach to the safety of the plant - Site Complex 9. Defence in depth 10. Quality assurance 11. Safety analysis 12. Safety analysis review 13. Classification of plant components 14. Notes on some plant components 15. Earthquakes resistance 16. Tornadoes resistance 17. Resistance to external impacts 18. Nuclear safety criteria 19. Nuclear safety research 20. Operating experience 21. Underground location of nuclear power plants 22. The effects of nuclear explosions 23. Radioactive waste 24. Fusion safety 25. Safety of specific plants and of other activities 26. Nuclear plants on satellites 27. Erroneous beliefs in nuclear safety 28. When can we say that a particular plant is safe? 29. The limits of nuclear safety: the residual risk