The 2018/19 cohort of students on the MSc Nuclear Science and Engineering programme graduated from the University of Bristol this week The ceremony for the Faculty of Science took place in the Great Hall, Wills Memorial Building. This included the MSc students on the Nuclear Science and Engineering programme, which saw its largest cohort to […]
The University of Bristol’s MSc Nuclear Science and Engineering Programme has been featured in an article in the Insitute of Physics’s magazine, Physics World. Three recent graduates of the programme speak about their highlights of their studies, with the stand-out feature being the collaboration it enables across disciplines and with external organisations in the nuclear industry. […]
Dr Gustavo Rubio Antón CEng FIMechE - Safety Analyst, Nuclear Safety & Radiation Protection Inspections (Belv), will give a guest lecture at the University of Bristol.
The concept of Defence-in-Depth (DiD) is the primary mean of preventing and mitigating the consequences of accidents in a Nuclear Power Plant. According to the IAEA safety glossary, DiD is “a hierarchical deployment of different levels of divers equipment and procedures to prevent the escalation of anticipated operational occurrences and to maintain the effectiveness of physical barriers placed between a radiation source or radioactive materials and workers, members of the public or the environment, in operational states and, for some barriers, in accident conditions”.
Application of this concept throughout design and operation provides protection against occurrences and accidents, including those resulting from equipment or human induced failure. It ensures in a robust way the fulfilment of each fundamental safety function (control of reactivity, confinement, cooling) in all foreseeable plant conditions.
This lecture will introduce basic concepts of nuclear safety and will discuss the relationship between safety and risk, before describing the different levels of DiD and their associated safety objectives. We will then be ready to describe the three types of analysis used in nuclear safety engineering to demonstrate the integrity of the barriers of the different levels of DiD and how the nuclear power plant will deliver the safety functions required to meet the safety
objectives.
This will include a discussion on Design Basis Analysis (DBA) and how it ensures that the design is fault tolerant for accidents within the design basis of the plant, Probabilistic Safety Analysis (PSA) to ensure that risks are acceptable and balanced and, finally, Severe Accident Analysis (SAA) for the provision of mitigating measures against unlikely faults.
This lecture is primarily for students and staff on the MSc Nuclear Science and Engineering, but is open to all. If you are interested in attending please email sw-nuclearhub@bristol.ac.uk
A group of four postgraduate students from the University of Bristol recently visited the Preston offices of Assystem Energy & Infrastructure Limited, as part of their group research project. The students are all studying on the MSc Nuclear Science and Engineering and are working together on a project, sponsored by EDF, on alternative methods of condition […]
The 2016/17 cohort of students on the MSc Nuclear Science and Engineering programme graduated from the University of Bristol today. The ceremony for the Faculty of Science took place in the Great Hall, Wills Memorial Building on Friday 9 February at 10.30am. This included the MSc students on the Nuclear Science and Engineering programme […]
