Reactor Protective System — A Reactor Protective System (RPS) is a set of nuclear safety components in a nuclear power plant designed to safely shutdown the reactor and prevent the release of radioactive materials. The System can trip automatically (initiating a Scram), or… … Wikipedia
Reactor control and safety system — См. СУЗ Термины атомной энергетики. Концерн Росэнергоатом, 2010 … Термины атомной энергетики
Nuclear reactor safety systems — This article covers the technical aspects of active nuclear safety systems. For a general approach to nuclear safety, see nuclear safety. The three primary objectives of nuclear reactor safety systems as defined by the Nuclear Regulatory… … Wikipedia
Safety engineering — is an applied science strongly related to systems engineering and the subset System Safety Engineering. Safety engineering assures that a life critical system behaves as needed even when pieces fail.In the real world the term safety engineering… … Wikipedia
System 80 — is a pressurized water reactor design by the Westinghouse Electric Company.ystem 80+An updated version of the plant has been designed which was given a + at the end of the name. This indicates an evolutionary plant design changes were made to… … Wikipedia
Safety instrumented system — A Safety Instrumented System (SIS) is a form of process control usually implemented in industrial processes, such as those of a factory or an oil refinery. The SIS performs specified functions to achieve or maintain a safe state of the process… … Wikipedia
System accident — A system accident is an unanticipated interaction of multiple failures in a complex system. This complexity can either be technological or organizational, and often is both.[1] A system accident can be very easy to see in hindsight, but very… … Wikipedia
nuclear reactor — Physics. reactor (def. 4). Also called nuclear pile. [1940 45] * * * Device that can initiate and control a self sustaining series of nuclear fission reactions. Neutrons released in one fission reaction may strike other heavy nuclei, causing them … Universalium
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Nuclear safety — covers the actions taken to prevent nuclear and radiation accidents or to limit their consequences. This covers nuclear power plants as well as all other nuclear facilities, the transportation of nuclear materials, and the use and storage of… … Wikipedia
Nuclear reactor — Core of CROCUS, a small nuclear reactor used for research at the EPFL in Switzerland This article is a subarticle of Nuclear power. A nuclear reactor is a device to initiate and control a sustained nuclear chain reaction. Most commonly they are… … Wikipedia