**NUCLEAR POWER – PRACTICAL ASPECTS**

http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/2580 Edited by Wael Ahmed

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Prabhakar Sharma, Shi-Lin Chen, Chang-Hsing Lee, Heinz-Peter Berg, Jan Hauschild, Marco Tullio Vilhena, Bardo Bodmann, Umberto Rizza, Daniela Buske, Vladimir Mikhailovich Kotov, Tamás János Katona, Luciano Burgazzi, Wael H. Ahmed

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Contents

**Preface VII**

Luciano Burgazzi

Prabhakar Sharma

Chapter 4 **Seismic Safety Analysis and** 

Wael H. Ahmed

Vladimir M. Kotov

Tamás János Katona

Chapter 1 **Power System Protection Design for NPP 1**  Chang-Hsing Lee and Shi-Lin Chen

Chapter 3 **Geological Disposal of Nuclear Waste:** 

Chapter 2 **Reliability of Passive Systems in Nuclear Power Plants 23** 

**Fate and Transport of Radioactive Materials 59** 

**Upgrading of Operating Nuclear Power Plants 77** 

Chapter 5 **Probabilistic Assessment of Nuclear Power Plant** 

Heinz Peter Berg and Jan Hauschild

Chapter 7 **Thermal Reactors with High Reproduction of Fission Materials 179** 

> Marco Túllio Vilhena, Bardo Bodmann, Umberto Rizza and Daniela Buske

**Protection Against External Explosions 125** 

Chapter 6 **Flow Accelerated Corrosion in Nuclear Power Plants 153** 

Chapter 8 **On an Analytical Model for the Radioactive Contaminant** 

**Release in the Atmosphere from Nuclear Power Plants 219** 
