The “Race” to Resolve the Boiling Water Reactor Safety Limit Problem - Union of Concerned Scientists

The “Race” to Resolve the Boiling Water Reactor Safety Limit Problem - Union of Concerned Scientists: General Electric (GE) informed the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in March 2005 that its computer analyses of a depressurization event for boiling water reactors (BWRs) non-conservatively assumed the transient would be terminated by the automatic trips of the main turbine and reactor on high wa