Research Catalog

Title

Lessons learned from the Fukushima nuclear accident for improving safety and security of U.S. nuclear plants. Phase 2 / Committee on Lessons Learned from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident for Improving Safety and Security of U.S. Nuclear Plants, Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board, Division on Earth and Life Studies, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, [2016]

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Additional Authors

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Lessons Learned from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident for Improving Safety and Security of U.S. Nuclear Plants, issuing body. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/isb

Description

xv, 221 pages : color illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"The U.S. Congress asked the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a technical study on lessons learned from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident for improving safety and security of commercial nuclear power plants in the United States. This study was carried out in two phases: Phase 1, issued in 2014, focused on the causes of the Fukushima Daiichi accident and safety-related lessons learned for improving nuclear plant systems, operations, and regulations exclusive of spent fuel storage. This Phase 2 report focuses on three issues: (1) lessons learned from the accident for nuclear plant security, (2) lessons learned for spent fuel storage, and (3) reevaluation of conclusions from previous Academies studies on spent fuel storage"--Publisher's description.

Subjects

• Safety Management
• Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011
• Nuclear power plants > Security measures
• Nuclear reactor accidents > Japan
• Radioactive Hazard Release > prevention & control
• Fukushima Nuclear Accident
• Nuclear power plants > Safety measures > Risk assessment

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-199).
• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction -- Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident: lessons learned for spent fuel storage -- Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear accident: lessons learned for nuclear plant security -- Reevaluation of findings and recommendations from previous NAS reports -- Security risk assessment -- Loss-of-coolant events in spent fuel pools -- Expedited transfer of spent fueld from pools to dry casks -- References -- Appendix A: Committee and staff biographies -- Appendix B: Presentations -- Appendix C: Conversions and units -- Appendix D: Acronyms.

ISBN

• 9780309388887
• 0309388880

OCLC

• ocn950978005
• 950978005
• SCSB-5855507

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries