The Fukushima Daiichi Accident

Jammal, R; Vincze, P; Heitsch, M; Dobrzyński, L.; Dolganov, K.; Duspiva, J.; Grant, Imogen; Guerpinar, A; Hirano, Masashi; Hatem, Khouaja; H.t., Kim; Krijger, H; Lequerica, I; Marc, Noel; Orders, William T.; Urzua, G; Volkholz, P.; Weidenbruck, K; Weiss, Susan R.; M.g., Zheng; Chande, Swati; Hughes, Phil; Ulses, A; Aparkin, F; J.r., Alonso; Ayub, Muhammad; Andrea, Bucalossi; Chaikiat, P; Dermarkar, F; Foucher, Laurent; Gauntt, Randall O.; I.a., Giannelli; A.r., Godoy; González, Víctor; Harrison, Sarah; Heppel-Masys, K; Hoshi, Harutaka; Kajimoto, Mitsuhiro; Kuivalainen, H; Lankin, M; L'epinois, B De; Macchi, Luigi; Mildenberger, Oliver; Jozef, Misak; Perryman, L; Ryser, C; J.h., Song; Drábová, Dana; Buglova, E.; Shiraga, K; Aaltonen, Hannele; Ahier, Brian; Bardelay, J; Blackburn, Carl; Byron, D.; Chen, P; Chugunov, Vadim; Carmona, Altahona; Rosa, Adriana; Harou, Aurélie; Hernandez, D; Homma, Tetsuya; Hubbard, Lorita E.; Kelly, Nisa N.; Kenigsberg, J; Maree, M; McClelland, Vince; Molina, Gustavo Fabían; Pascal, G.; Sigouin, L; Soufi, I; D.e., Sumargo; Takahara, Shiro; Vega, Rodrigo De La

doi:10.1051/jtsfen/2012nuc23

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“…What would have been the costs to the consumer associated with the four additional safeguards? The Fukushima I nuclear power plant had a 4.7‐GW production capacity (Braun 2011). If it is assumed that Fukushima I nuclear power plant was operating at 80% production capacity throughout its lifespan, an average of 3.76‐GW power production, then the annual cost of the additional safeguards to prevent a rare event would have been spread out across 33 million MW‐h produced by the Fukushima I nuclear power plant every year.…”

Section: Evaluating the Cost Effectiveness Of Technology To Incrementioning

confidence: 99%

Renaissance or Requiem: Is Nuclear Energy Cost Effective in a Post‐fukushima World?

Schwarz¹,

Cochran²

2012

Contemporary Economic Policy

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In the aftermath of Fukushima, decisions to slow or stop the future use of nuclear power have not been based on rational economic analysis. We find that there are cost‐effective technologies that would greatly mitigate future natural disasters. Even if the U.S. nuclear industry adopted new safety technologies and paid the full cost of insurance and borrowing, it is more efficient to continue to use existing nuclear plants than to replace them with new fossil fuel plants. However, new nuclear plant costs can exceed fossil fuel alternatives if the price of carbon emissions is below $118/ton. (JEL Q40, Q48, Q54)

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Section: Evaluating the Cost Effectiveness Of Technology To Incrementioning

confidence: 99%

Renaissance or Requiem: Is Nuclear Energy Cost Effective in a Post‐fukushima World?

Schwarz¹,

Cochran²

2012

Contemporary Economic Policy

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“…The Fukushima-Daiichi accident highlighted that even redundant safety systems in place for GEN-II reactors can simultaneously fail with serious consequences [1,2]. Consequently, a drive to design fuel elements for light water reactors (LWRs), and especially the existing fleet of GEN II reactors, that have a more delayed and less damaging response to a major failure, such as a sustained loss of coolant or overpower-type accident, has gained a great deal of momentum.…”

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Experimental and computational assessment of U Si N ternary phases

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Wilson

Kocevski

et al. 2019

Journal of Nuclear Materials

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Uranium nitride-silicide composites are being considered as a high-density and high thermal conductivity fuel option for light water reactors. During development, chemical interactions were observed near the silicide melting point which resulted in formation of an unknown U-SiN ternary phase. In the present work, U-SiN composite samples were produced by arc-melting U 3 Si 2 under an argon-nitrogen atmosphere to form the ternary phase. The resulting samples were characterized by SEM/EDS-EPMA and XRD, and demonstrated an equilibrium between U 3 Si 2 , UN, USi and a U-SiN phase with a distinct crystallographic structure. Rietveld refinement of the ternary structure was performed, considering the ternary structures existent in the analogue U-Si-C system, and a good fit was obtained for the hexagonal U 20 Si 16 N 3 phase. DFT+U calculations were performed in parallel to evaluate the thermodynamic and dynamic stability of the ternaries U 20 Si 16 N 3 and U 3 Si 2 N 2. The calculated enthalpy of formation and phonon dispersion support the existence of stable U 20 Si 16 N 3 and U 3 Si 2 N 2 , although some soft modes in the

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