Loss prevention and safety culture. Licensing and regulation of nuclear power plants. Reactor safety analysis: general principles, defense in depth, inherent reactor stability, quality assurance, redundancy, and diversity. Barriers against the release of radioactivity. Reactor protection and cooling. Deterministic safety assessment: categories of abnormal events, design basis accident, final safety analysis report. Probabilistic safety assessment: hazard identification, initiating events, accident sequence frequency, consequence assessment, risk calculation. Description and analysis of selected accidents: TMI and Chernobyl.

Credits: 3.0 (three)