- Author
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Sullivan, K.
- Title
- Fire Protection of Safe Shutdown Capability at Commercial Nuclear Power Plants.
- Coporate
- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY
- Sponsor
- Nuclear Regulatory Agency, Washington, DC
- Report
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BNL-NURG-49137
1993
5 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Keywords
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nuclear power plants
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fire protection
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fire safety
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industrial safety
- Abstract
- The comprehensive industrial safety standards and codes that exist today have evolved from lessons learned through past experience, research results, and improvements in technological capabilities. The current requirements for fire safety features of commercial nuclear power stations operated in the U.S. are a notable example of this practice. Although fire protection has always been an important design requirement, from the aftermath of a serious fire that occurredin 1975 at the Browns Ferry plant, it was learned that the life safety and property protection concerns of the major fire insurance underwriters may not sufficiently encompass nuclear safety issues, particularly with regard to the potential for fire damage to result in the common mode failure of redundant trains of systems, and components important to the safe shutdown of the reactor.