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The 2011 Update

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• A Personal Welcome
• 2011 Edition
• Questions about Nuclear Power ???
• Fukushima
• Renewable Energy

Recent Nuclear Power Plant News (24 hours)

• NY Times
• Washington Post
• Reuters

Recent Nuclear Regulatory Commission OR NRC News (24 hours)

• NRC.gov (Latest)
• All *.gov (NOT nrc.gov)
• NY Times - (NRC only)
• Washington Post

• A Quick Tour (FAQ)
• Current Hot Topics

   

  - New Designs (NEW)

  - New Plant Applications (NEW)

  - Early Site Permits (NEW)

  - Locations of Proposed Reactors (NEW)

   

  - Terrorism Concerns

  - Locations

  - Private Spent Fuel Storage

  - Russian Enriched Fuel

  - Effects of Low Levels of Radiation

  - Transportation of Nuclear Waste

  - Decommissioning of Nuclear Plants

  - Reprocessing  

  - Advanced Reactors  

   

• Inside the Nuclear Power Plant
• US Locations - Plants - Maps
• NRC Daily Plant Status - Event Notification - Operational Experience - NRC Plant Assessments - Reactor Oversight
• NRC ADAMS Public Documents
• Sample Preliminary Safety Analysis Report
• World Locations - Plants
• Web searches for specific US power plants

• Comparisons-Energy Sources
• The Cases For - Against Nuclear Power
• Environmental Effects
• Methods of Generating Electricity (Coal - Nuclear)
• Overview graphics (Coal - Nuclear)
• Atmospheric Pollutants
• Cost comparison
• Questions/Answers

• Basic Process
• Reactor Construction
• Coolants
• Fuel Construction
• Spent Fuel Decay - Trends
• Spent Fuel Decay Calculations
• Comparisons-power generation
• Radwaste-Lo & Hi Level
• Low Level Waste Considerations
• High Level Waste Considerations
• Xenon 135 - An Intro to Neutron Poisons

• The Early Reactors
• Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR)
• Boiling Water Reactor (BWR)
• CANDU and Heavy Water Moderated Reactors
• VVER Reactor
• RBMK Reactor
• Liquid Metal Cooled Fast Reactor (LMFBR)
• Gas Cooled Reactor (GCR)
• Modular Pebble Bed Reactor
• Advanced Design Reactors  
• Advantages of the Specific Designs

Nuclear Unique

• Fuel
• Reactors
• Reactor Cooling Systems
• Reactor Cooling Systems-more
• Reactor Cooling System-CANDU
• CANDU
• BWR Recirc
• Steam Generators/Steam Separators

Electrical & Computers

• Generator and Support Systems
• Substation
• Normal Electrical Distribution
• Emergency Electrical
• Computers
• Rod Control Systems

Emergency Safety Systems

Defense in Depth

• Containment
• Containment Pressure Control
• Emergency Feedwater
• Emergency Core Cooling
• Emergency Diesel Generators
• Reactor Protection
• Accident Monitoring Instrumentation
• Nuclear Instrumentation
• Cooling Water Systems
• Emergency Ventilation
• Essential Service Water
• Vacuum Building

• Main Steam
• Turbines and Support Systems
• Condenser
• Condensate and Feedwater
• Circulating Water
• Service/Cooling Water
• Cooling Towers
• Snubbers

Specialized Non-safety Nuclear Systems

• Radioactive Waste
• Spent Fuel Storage
• Reactor Water Chemical Cleanup Systems

United States (over 50 pages)

• Overview and Map
• Maps and Aerial Views
• Plant Information

World (over 25 pages)

• Map and Databases with Plant Locations
• Plant Information

• Operations
• Maintenance
  • Refueling the reactor
  • More on Refueling
  • Turbine-generator
  • Transformers
  • Steam generator
  • Outages
• Health Physics
  • Radiation Safety
  • Emergency Planning (General)
  • Emergency Planning (More)
• Engineering
  • Accident and Transient Safety Analysis
  • Engineers in Nuclear Power Plants
  • Probabilistic Safety Analysis
  • Radioactive Waste - Low Level and High Level
  • Xenon-135 and Neutron Poisons
• Regulation of Nuclear Power Plants
  • Sample Preliminary Safety Analysis Report
• Industry Organizations

• Three Mile Island (TMI-2)
• Chernobyl
• Fukushima Daiichi
• Windscale
• Meltdown Event
• Earthquakes & Other Natural Phenomena
• Steam Generator Tube Rupture @ Indian Point

References     vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv NEW

• Descriptions of Selected Accidents That Have Occurred at Nuclear Reactor Facilities (ORNL Report)

Inside a Nuclear Power Plant

Photos and Graphics

Introduction

• Inside a BWR
• Control Rooms
• Containment
• Turbine Building
• Turbine Halls
• Auxiliary Building
• Fuel Building
• Diesel Building
• Screenhouse
• Administration
• Security
• ISFSI

Containment

• Reactor & spent fuel cask
• Airlocks
• Facades
• CANDU design reactor
• Steam Generator

• VVER reactor after refueling
• PWR showing rod control and rod position cabling
• Refueling floor-RBMK
• Spent fuel storage
• CANDU Reactor and Fuel Design -

Control Rooms

• VVER-1000 -with mimic panel
• PWR- TV monitors and alarms
• Radiation monitoring panel
• Electrical Control Room
• RBMK Control Room
• PWR compact board
• VVER and Framatome

• Multi-unit RBMK
• PWR turbine
• Turbine oil system
• High pressure turbine
• PWR Generator
• Main Feedwater Pump
• BWR Turbine

Electrical Distribution

• Emergency diesel generator
• Electrical switchgear

Outside Equipment

• Natural Draft Cooling Towers

• NukeWorker
• RoadTechs - Nuclear
• AltaVista List of Linked Pages
• Google List of Linked Pages
• United States
• Canada & Americas
• Australia, Asia, India, Africa
• Europe & Scandinavia
• Russia & Eastern Europe
• Reference Books
• History of Nuclear Power

• The People - Nobel Laureates

• Belarussian translation - NEW! Дзякуй, Багдан

   

   

• NRC News Releases - ADAMS
• NRC Regulations (10CFR)
• Columbia Video Tour (42 MB)
• History of Nuclear Power Safety
• 1 Nuclear  Place
• NuclearSectorJobs-UK (NEW)
• Nuclear Street 
• Nuclearwaste
• UK Types of Energy
• WISE Uranium Maps
• FedStats
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• Babelfish Translation
• National Energy Policy (US)
• Wikipedia
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