Development of the General Safety Requirements for New Innovative Reactors
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[en] Since 2007, new innovative reactors, such as VHTR (Very- High-Temperature Reactor) for hydrogen production and Gen. IV SFR (Sodium-cooled Fast Reactor) have been developed by the KAERI (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute) under auspices of the MEST (Ministry of Education, Science and Technology). The design concepts and characteristics of new innovative reactors are substantially different from existing LWRs, as denoted in Table 1. USNRC and IAEA have proposed to adopt regulatory technology-neutral framework (TNF) which can be applied regardless of their reactor types in order to enhance the effectiveness, efficiency, and predictability of future plant licensing. Especially, USNRC has provided an approach that appropriately integrates deterministic and probabilistic elements in the development of technical requirements for future reactors. The approach considers more extensive use of risk-informed and performance-based applications. In this study, utilizing the approach by the USNRC, the general safety and technical requirements for new innovative reactors are developed through several steps
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Korean Nuclear Society, Daejeon (Korea, Republic of); [1 CD-ROM]; May 2009; [2 p.]; 2009 spring meeting of the KNS; Jeju (Korea, Republic of); 18-23 May 2009; Available from KNS, Daejeon (KR); 3 refs, 3 figs, 2 tabs
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