Author: U.s. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub

Published: 2014-10-09

Total Pages: 94

ISBN-13: 9781502529664

This report summarizes an assessment of the risks from severe accidents in five commercial nuclear power plants in the United States. These risks are measured in a number of ways, including: the estimated frequencies of core damage accidents from internally initiated accidents and externally initiated accidents for two of the plants;the performance of containment structures under severe accident loadings; the potential magnitude of radionuclide releases and offside consequences of such accidents; and the overall risk.