Codes on the Safety of Nuclear Power Plants in Relation to Seismic Design

Abstract:

Study on the nuclear Safety laws and regulations, and good grasp of relevant definitions are essential prerequisites for Seismic and geologic siting of nuclear power plants. It can be too strongly emphasized that laws or decrees of issue by government and legislature have profound mandatory binding force. The guides and regulations related nuclear safety belong to directing documents of the specific rules, they have not been mandatory in the law significance, and allow some adaptability to a certain degree. Professionally technical specification is merely the inherent stipulations, besides; it must meet the codes demands in the concrete practice. Finally, the assessment of the capability for surface faulting at nuclear power plant sites belongs to the mandatory claims but not in assessment of active fault.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 256-259)
• Pages: 2085-2090
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.256-259.2085
• Online since: December 2012
• Authors: Yuan Jun Li
• Keywords: Capable Fault, Code of Nuclear Safety, Nuclear Power Plant Siting, Seismic Design

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