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Analysis of the Uncertainty of Calculations of Loss-of-Coolant Accidents for the No. 1 Unit of the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant

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A method is developed for performing statistical analysis of the uncertainty of the hermophysical calculations. This method makes it possible to construct with a prescribed reliability the confidence interval for the estimated parameter, determine the factors which have a large effect on the computational result, and estimate how close the variant calculations are to the base (undeviated) calculation. The methodology has been approved, within the framework of a deeper substantiation of the safety of the No. 1 unit of the Kursk nuclear power plant, for analysis of two types of accidents, using the RELAP5/MOD3.2 computer code, with rupture of the group distribution collector.

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  1. N.A. Dollezhal’ Scientific-Research and Design Institute of Electrical Technology, Russia

    D. A. Afremov, Yu. V. Zhuravleva, Yu. V. Mironov, V. S. Nazarov, V. E. Radkevich & D. A. Yashnikov

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Translated from Atomnaya Energiya, Vol. 98, No. 6, pp. 422–428, June 2005.

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Afremov, D.A., Zhuravleva, Y.V., Mironov, Y.V. et al. Analysis of the Uncertainty of Calculations of Loss-of-Coolant Accidents for the No. 1 Unit of the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant. At Energy 98, 394–399 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10512-005-0223-5

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