The Concept of Inherent Safety of Generation V Nuclear Power Plants

3/18/2021 2021 - #01 Global safety, reliability and diagnostics of nuclear power installations

Slesarev I.S. Adamov E.O. Leonov V.N. Rachkov V.I. Orlov A.I.

https://doi.org/10.26583/npe.2021.1.11

Elimination of significant risks in nuclear power production is at the present stage a necessity and goal-setting that determine its development in the near future.

Of particular importance is the problem of maximum credibility and convincingly substantiated resistance of nuclear power plants to serious accidents. The lack of clear logic, transparency and guarantees in the reliability of the announced nuclear safety significantly hinders its development, unnecessarily overcomplicating expensive technical solutions and thereby weakening the competitiveness of nuclear energy.

The originally proposed Concept of Inherent Safety set the task of solving the above problems; however, so far its specific content has not been explicitly presented, which allows many competitors to use its terminology to promote projects that are not directly related to the «spirit and letter» of Inherent Safety.

The present paper is intended to fill this gap. The authors also discuss the conditions for the generation and development of new self-protection means for innovative nuclear reactors as well as the phenomenological and technical aspects for their implementation based on the deterministic formalism.

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Link for citing the article: Slesarev I.S., Adamov E.O., Leonov V.N., Rachkov V.I., Orlov A.I. The Concept of Inherent Safety of Generation V Nuclear Power Plants. Izvestiya vuzov. Yadernaya Energetika. 2021, no. 1, pp. 122-132; DOI: https://doi.org/10.26583/npe.2021.1.11 (in Russian).