reactor protection system (RPS) is a set of nuclear safety and security components in a nuclear power plant designed to safely shut down the reactor and...

condition and prevent the release of radioactive material. A reactor protection system is designed to immediately terminate the nuclear reaction. By...

Boiling water reactor safety systems are nuclear safety systems constructed within boiling water reactors in order to prevent or mitigate environmental...

quality management system, organisation and safety culture were made. In 2020 Framatome won an order to deliver reactor protection systems for the Russian...

A boiling water reactor (BWR) is a type of nuclear reactor used for the generation of electrical power. It is the second most common type of electricity-generating...

The small modular reactor (SMR) is a class of small nuclear fission reactor, designed to be built in a factory, shipped to operational sites for installation...

Health and Safety Executive guidance for computer based protection systems for nuclear reactors due to its rigour and flexibility in handling many programming...

Everything had been done according to the regulation demands... the reactor protection system designed to stop the fission in an emergency situation... played...

A nuclear reactor is a device used to initiate and control a fission nuclear chain reaction. They are used for commercial electricity, marine propulsion...

reactor") is a class of graphite-moderated nuclear power reactor designed and built by the Soviet Union. It is somewhat like a boiling water reactor as...

(APS) is a thermal power station in which the heat source is a nuclear reactor. As is typical of thermal power stations, heat is used to generate steam...

event of primary hydraulic and ARI contingencies. A fully digital Reactor Protection System (RPS) (with redundant digital backups as well as redundant manual...

to the reactor coolant drain tank in the containment building basement. RCS pressure continued to rise, reaching the reactor protection system high-pressure...

of reactors at Fukushima in Japan did not anticipate that a tsunami generated by an unexpected large earthquake would disable the backup systems that...

Transient Reactor Test Facility (TREAT) is an air-cooled, graphite moderated, thermal spectrum test nuclear reactor designed to test reactor fuels and...

Generation III reactors, or Gen III reactors, are a class of nuclear reactors designed to succeed Generation II reactors, incorporating evolutionary improvements...

release, on June 6, 2009, at 09:15 EEST (06:15 UTC), the automatic reactor protection system was actuated and Unit 2 was shut down. No radiation was released...

Nuclear Regulation (ONR) recommends the use of static analysis on reactor protection systems. Aviation software (in combination with dynamic analysis). Automotive...

CANDU (CANada Deuterium Uranium) is a Canadian pressurized heavy-water reactor design used to generate electric power. The acronym refers to its deuterium...

Generation IV (Gen IV) reactors are nuclear reactor design technologies that are envisioned as successors of generation III reactors. The Generation IV International...

radioactivity released. K-14, 1961: the reactor compartment was replaced due to unspecified "breakdown of reactor protection systems". K-19, 1961: suffered a loss-of-coolant...

power transmission grid system, switchyard reactors are large inductors installed at substations to help stabilize the power system. For transmission lines...

production. Framatome is supplying reactor protection systems for the VVER-TOI reactors at Kursk II. The VVER-TOI reactor pressure vessel has fewer welds...

usually normal because of relatively effective iron-water radiation protection of the reactor compartment and radiation monitoring.[citation needed] The first...

"EPIS" at a CANDU reactor. In many cases, a scram is part of the routine shutdown procedure which serves to test the emergency shutdown system. There is no...

amount of protection that a current limiting reactor offers depends upon the percentage increase in impedance that it provides for the system. The main...

California. The reactor operated from 1957 to 1964. On July 12, 1957 the Sodium Reactor Experiment became the first nuclear reactor in California to...

The B Reactor at the Hanford Site, near Richland, Washington, was the first large-scale nuclear reactor ever built, at 250 MW. It achieved criticality...

the reactor was initiated as the experiment was wrapping-up. The scram was started when the AZ-5 button of the reactor emergency protection system was...

Soviet submarine and her reactor's protection systems would have performed an automatic emergency shutdown (scrammed the reactor), but her captain ordered...