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    Safety margin to acceptance criteria

    I meant that anyway in both plants there is a big margin to 2200F. US-APWR also shows the same results for PCT. We can look at this problem in this way: According to every plant characteristics, ECCS have to be designed in such a way that PCT won't pass the acceptance criteria. Now, for the...
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    Safety margin to acceptance criteria

    10 CFR 50.46 gives the acceptance criteria as the required condition for the performance of ECCS. There, it is indicated that PCT (Peak Clad Temperature) must be below 2200F. On the other hand one can rarely find an accident analysis for NPPs with the result of the analysis showing the PCT...
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