Predicting material release during a nuclear reactor accident
The accident in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant that happened four years ago this month, has once more drawn the attention of a broad public to the environmental impact of the release of fission products from nuclear power reactors in the event of an accident in which the reactor core is damaged. So far three such accidents have occurred in the history of civil nuclear power production. In this commentary we will review the state-of-the-art of the knowlegde of the physical and chemical processes governing the fission product release from nuclear fuel under the extreme conditions occuring in reactor accidents.
KONINGS Rudy;
WISS Thierry;
BENES Ondrej;
2015-02-20
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
JRC91822
1476-1122,
http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/v14/n3/index.html,
http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/v14/n3/full/nmat4224.html,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC91822,
10.1038/nmat4224,
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