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• 2007:41 Dependency Analysis Guidence, Nordic/German Working Group on Common cause Failure analysis Phaase 1 project report: Comparison and application to test cases

  project report: Comparisons and application to test cases” presents a common attempt by the authorities and the utilities to create a methodology and experience base for defence and analysis of dependent failures ... found in all approaches. We should try to take them and develop the existing approaches into a harmonised direction. A next step could be to develop and agree on event & formula driven impact vector creation...

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• 2007:25 Safety Management Characteristics Reflected in Interviews at Swedish Nuclear Power Plants: A System Perspective Approach

  organizations, organizational change, regulatory and operational activities, safety strategy, threats to safety, information management and feedback, incident and accident reminders on different aspects of safety ... safety management in the nuclear context. reporting, and measurement of safety. The results give interesting insights and important reminders on different aspects of safety management in the nuclear context...

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• 2007:10 DECOVALEX-THMC - Task D

  stands for DEvelopment of COupled models and their VALidation against Experiments. The general goal of this project is to encourage multidisciplinary interactive and cooperative research on modeling coupled ... DECOVALEX is under way, referred to as DECOVALEX-THMC. THMC stands for Thermal, Hydrological,Mechanical, and Chemical processes. The new project stage *aims at expanding the traditional geomechanical scope of...

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• 2007:37 Identification of Common Cause Initiating Events Using the NEA IRS Database

  where a single event or a single cause initiate a disturbance with impact across redundant systems and, indeed, throughout a plant. Several such events have been observed in the past, often related with ... where a single event or a single cause initiate a disturbance with impact across redundant systems and, indeed, throughout a plant. Several such events have been observed in the past, often related with...

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• 2006:15e Safety and Radiation Protection at Swedish Nuclear Power Plants 2005

  (SKI) supervisory and regulatory activities are based assume that multiple physical barriers will exist and that a plant-specific defence-in-depth system will be implemented at each plant and that the licensee ... material and the plant personnel and surroundings. In the case of nuclear reactors in operation, the barriers comprise the fuel itself, the fuel cladding, the reactor pressure-bearing primary system and the...

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• 2006:02 Recent Research on EMF and Health Risks. Third annual report from SSIs Independent Expert Group on Electromagnetic Fields 2005

  REFLEX programme suggest genotoxic effects from exposure to relatively weak extremely low frequency and radio frequency (RF) electromagnetic fields. However, results from other recent studies were negative ... are sparse. However, for longterm use and acoustic neuroma there is a concern, and more information is required. The few studies that have been published on health risks among populations living near transmitters...

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• 2006:31 An Applied Study on the Decontamination and Decommissioning of Hot Cell Facilities in the United States and Comparison with the Studsvik Facility for Solid and Liquid Waste

  Dr. Geoff Varley SKI English...

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• 2006:36 Mechanical Integrity of Canisters Using a Fracture Mechanics Approach

  This report presents the methods and results of a research project for Swedish Nuclear Power Inspectorate (SKI) about numerical modeling of mechanical integrity of cast-iron canisters for the final disposal ... Sweden, using combined boundary element (BEM) and finite element (FEM) methods The objectives of the project are: 1) to investigate the possibility of initiation and growth of fractures in the cast-iron canisters...

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• 2006:24 Crack Characterisation for In-service Inspection Planning An Update

  systems) for pre- and in-service inspection has been recognised to a greater or lesser extent for many years in many countries engaged in nuclear power generation. However, NDT in general and qualification ... particular are multidisciplinary and complex tasks. Development of NDT systems and demonstration of their effectiveness by qualifications require good knowledge in the NDT methods and techniques that are to be...

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• 2005:20 Expert Panel Elicitation of Seismicity Following Glaciation in Sweden

  The Swedish Radiation Protection Authority, the Swedish Nuclear Power Inspectorate and the Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company have jointly carried out a project on expert panel elicitation ... two Swedish sites, Oskarshamn and Forsmark, in connection with a glaciation cycle. The experts’ median value vas 0,1 earthquakes for one glaciation cycle. Stephen Hora and Mikael Jensen SSI English The...

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