This project involves a study of the inherently safe class of nuclear power plants and those evolutionary plants that exhibit safety on par with the inherently safe designs. A concise technical treatise on these reactor designs' safety systems, as well as a report on their current states of development/implementation, is presented to support conclusions made. The conclusions include a comparison among the designs, a global nuclear power market analysis, and a comparison between nuclear power and fossil fuel burning.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Velez, Santiago
• Luchansky, Kevin M.
• Kolkebeck, Scott
• Selvaraj, Sanjeev

Subject

• Energy
• Environment
• Security

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 99A017I

Palabra Clave

• Product safety
• Marketing
• Risk management
• Energy policy

Advisor

• Woods, Douglas W.
• Lew Yan Voon, Lok C.

Year

• 1999

Date created

• 1999-01-01

Ubicación

• Worcester

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright