Development of an adequate model for verification of design safety-margins of the HTTR nuclear test facility

This work is based on the prototype High Engineering Test Reactor (HTTR) of the Japan Agency of Energy Atomic (JAEA). Its objective is to describe an adequate deterministic model to be used in the assessment of its design safety margins via damage domains. The concept of damage domain is defined and it is shown its relevance in the ongoing effort to apply dynamic risk assessment methods and tools based on the Theory of Stimulated Dynamics (TSD). To illustrate, we present results of an abnormal control rod (CR) withdrawal during subcritical condition and its comparison with results obtained by JAEA. No attempt is made yet to actually assess the detailed scenarios, rather to show how the approach may handle events of its kin

Application of a dynamic event tree methodolgy to steam generator tube rupture sequences

The Integrated Safety Assessment (ISA) methodology, developed by the Spanish Nuclear Safety Council (CSN), has been applied to a thermo-hydraulical analysis of a Westinghouse 3-loop PWR plant by means of the dynamic event trees (DET) for Steam Generator Tube Rupture (SGTR) sequences. The ISA methodology allows obtaining the SGTR Dynamic Event Tree taking into account the operator actuation times. Simulations are performed with SCAIS (Simulation Code system for Integrated Safety Assessment), which includes a dynamic coupling with MAAP thermal hydraulic code. The results show the capability of the ISA methodology and SCAIS platform to obtain the DET of complex sequences

Assessment of damage domains of the High-Temperature Engineering Test Reactor (HTTR)

This paper presents an assessment analysis of damage domains of the 30 MWth prototype High-Temperature Engineering Test Reactor (HTTR) operated by the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA). For this purpose, an in-house deterministic risk assessment computational tool was developed based on the Theory of Stimulated Dynamics (TSD). To illustrate the methodology and applicability of the developed modelling approach, assessment results of a control rod (CR) withdrawal accident during subcritical conditions are presented and compared with those obtained by the JAEA

La función de la Corte Penal Internacional: visiones plurales desde una perspectiva interdisciplinar

El presente libro hace parte de los trabajos del grupo de justicia nacional de la “Red de Investigación Perspectivas Iberoamericanas sobre la Justicia”, coordinada desde el Instituto Ibero-Americano de la Haya para la Paz, los Derechos Humanos y la Justicia Internacional (IIH) (Países Bajos). Así mismo, se inscribe dentro de los proyectos de investigación: (a) “La función de la Corte Penal Internacional desde las teorías de la justicia en el derecho internacional” (2019-2020), cofinanciado por la Facultad de Jurisprudencia de la Universidad del Rosario (Bogotá, Colombia) y el IIH (Países Bajos); y (b) “La respuesta del derecho internacional a la corrupción asociada al crimen transnacional organizado” (2019-2021), con número de referencia VFPC009, cofinanciado por la Dirección de Investigación e Innovación y la Facultad de Jurisprudencia de la Universidad del Rosario (Bogotá, Colombia), así como por el IIH (Países Bajos). Ambos proyectos se encuentran adscritos a la línea de investigación “Crítica al derecho internacional desde fundamentos filosóficos”, del Grupo de Investigación en DI de la Facultad de Jurisprudencia de la Universidad del Rosario

Erratum to: Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition) (Autophagy, 12, 1, 1-222, 10.1080/15548627.2015.1100356

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