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Reactor safety is given by the reliable solution of 3 tasks: on-time shutdown, continuous decay-heat removal, safe containment. After describing the general strategy of their solution even under upset conditions the most important engineered safeguards of pressurized water reactors are summarized. The important problem of human failure is discussed in some more detail. For the example Harrisburg some difficulties, but also some technical countermeasures are illustrated.
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Smidt, D.: Reaktor-Sicherheitstechnik. Berlin-Heidelberg-New York: Springer 1979
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Smidt, D. Reaktor-Sicherheit und menschliche Unzulänglichkeit. Naturwissenschaften 66, 593–600 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00405117
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00405117