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Applicability of FDS for the Fire Hazard Analysis of the Fire Zone at Nuclear Power Plants  

Jee, Moon-Hak (한전 전력연구원 원자력발전연구소)
Lee, Byung-Kon (충북대학교 안전공학과)
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Fire Science and Engineering / v.20, no.4, 2006 , pp. 13-18 More about this Journal
Abstract
The fire protection regulation for the nuclear power plants is based on the qualitative fire hazard assessment and the quantitative fire risk analysis, and the fire risk is managed by the fire protection plan with the appropriate balance among the fire prevention, fire suppression and the minimization of the fire effect. In these days, the zone model or the field model is generally used for the detail evaluation for the fire risk. At this paper, with consideration of the present trend, we evaluate whether the quantitative fire risk analysis and the assessment of fire result for fire areas at nuclear power plants can be possible by use of Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) that is the state-of-the-art fire modeling tool. Consequently, it is expected that the quantitative fire risk evaluation propelled by the fire modeling can be available as an applicable tool to improve the core damage frequency as well as the quantitative fire risk analysis.
Keywords
Nuclear power plant; Fire Hazard; Fire risk; FDS (Fire Dynamics Simulator); Field model;
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