Review Article, J Nucl Ene Sci Power Generat Technol S Vol: 0 Issue: 1
Paradigm Shift: Vital Risk Free Nuclear Power
| Igor Slessarev1,2* | |
| 1Kurchatov Research Centre, Akademika Kurchatova pl., Moscow, Russia | |
| 2CE Cadarache CE de Cadarache, Saint Paul Les Durance Cedex, France | |
| Corresponding author : Igor Slessarev Kurchatov Research Centre, Akademika Kurchatova pl, Moscow, 123182, Russia E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected] |
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| Received: October 21, 2013 Accepted: December 23, 2013 Published: December 30, 2013 | |
| Citation: Slessarev I (2013) Paradigm Shift: Vital Risk Free Nuclear Power. J Nucl Ene Sci Power Generat Technol S1. doi:10.4172/2325-9809.S1-008 |
Abstract
Paradigm Shift: Vital Risk Free Nuclear Power
This paper reflects continuing works on radical improvement of NP’s acceptability. Scientific principles of the new paradigm on the guaranteed elimination of all significant (“vital”) threats and risks in the current NP (or their transition to the category of the ordinary risks) have been proposed and analysed. First, the analytical review of vital risk sources is presented. It concludes: all convenient reactor types including the traditional sodium cooled large oxide-fuelled fast reactors are not capable meeting this paradigm; meanwhile the creation of immunity (internal self-defence) from vital risks can be considered as a reliable “mechanism” for achieving such risk elimination. Because of multiplicity of vital risks, their independence and mutual contradictory, this requires the scientific definition of the corresponding “super-task” which would be capable finding out a desirable compromise.
