Safety assessment of VHTR hydrogen production system against fire, explosion and acute toxicity

Transactions of the Atomic Energy Society of Japan

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 231-241

  Murakami, Tomoyuki ^a,b   Nishihara, Tetsuo ^a   Kunitomi, Kazuhiko ^a  

^a JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b FUJI ELECTRIC CO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute toxicity; Fire and explosion; GTHR300C; Hydrogen production system; IS process; Risk assessment; Separation distance; VHTR

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; EXPLOSIONS; FAULT TREE ANALYSIS; FIRES; HEALTH RISKS; HIGH TEMPERATURE REACTORS; NUCLEAR REACTOR ACCIDENTS; PUBLIC RISKS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY ENGINEERING; TOXIC MATERIALS; TOXICITY;

ACUTE TOXICITY; FIRE AND EXPLOSION; GTHR300C; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION SYSTEMS; IS PROCESS; SEPARATION DISTANCES; VHTR;

HYDROGEN PRODUCTION;

EID: 54849427158     PISSN: 13472879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3327/taesj.J07.039     Document Type: Article

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