Reactor type

release fraction

references

CANDU

0.5

HPAC: containment failure, unfiltered, sprays off, pressure tube melt, 100%release/hr, Hazard Prediction and Assessment Capability, Version 2.0, Defence Special Weapons Agency, Weapons Effects Division, March 1997.

RBMK

0.3-0.35

The Chernobyl Catastrophe: Consequences in the republic of Belarus, Ministry for Emergencies and Population Protection from the Chernobyl NPP catastrophe consequences of the republic of Belarus, Academy of Science of Belarus, National report 1996

0.4

OECD report OCDE/GD(96)12: The Chernobyl reactor accident source term, Paris 1996

0.65

A. Sich (1996): The Chernobyl active phase: Why the official view is wrong, Nuclear Engineering International, 40, 501, 22-25.

0.4

H. Slaper, R.O. Blaauboer, G.J. Eggink: Risks of potential accidents of nuclear power plants in Europe, RIVM report 74030001, Bilthoven, the Netherlands, 1994.

GCR

0.4

H. Slaper, R.O. Blaauboer, G.J. Eggink: Risks of potential accidents of nuclear power plants in Europe, RIVM report 74030001, Bilthoven, the Netherlands, 1994.

0.13

HPAC: confinement failure, vessel melt trough, 100%/hr, Hazard Prediction and Assessment Capability, Version 2.0, Defence Special Weapons Agency, Weapons Effects Division, March 1997.

AGR

0.13

HPAC: confinement failure, vessel melt trough, 100%/hr, Hazard Prediction and Assessment Capability, Version 2.0, Defence Special Weapons Agency, Weapons Effects Division, March 1997.

0.4

H. Slaper, R.O. Blaauboer, G.J. Eggink: Risks of potential accidents of nuclear power plants in Europe, RIVM report 74030001, Bilthoven, the Netherlands, 1994.

WWER-230

0.2

H. Slaper, R.O. Blaauboer, G.J. Eggink: Risks of potential accidents of nuclear power plants in Europe, RIVM report 74030001, Bilthoven, the Netherlands, 1994.

0.31-0.7

Austrian Expert Commission Bohunice: Bewertung der Sicherheit des Kernkraftwerkes Jaslovske Bohunice V-1, Austrian Expert Commission Bohunice, Vienna, 1991.

WWER-213

0.5

HPAC:confinement failure, vessel melt through, unfiltered, sprays off, 100%/hr, Hazard Prediction and Assessment Capability, Version 2.0, Defence Special Weapons Agency, Weapons Effects Division, March 1997.

0.2

H. Slaper, R.O. Blaauboer, G.J. Eggink: Risks of potential accidents of nuclear power plants in Europe, RIVM report 74030001, Bilthoven, the Netherlands, 1994.

WWER-1000

0.48

HPAC: Large Containment failure vessel melt through, unfiltered, sprays off, 100%/hr, Hazard Prediction and Assessment Capability, Version 2.0, Defence Special Weapons Agency, Weapons Effects Division, March 1997.

0.2

H. Slaper, R.O. Blaauboer, G.J. Eggink: Risks of potential accidents of nuclear power plants in Europe, RIVM report 74030001, Bilthoven, the Netherlands, 1994.

Kozloduy 5

0.5

Consequence Analysis of Transboundary Impacts of NPP Accidents, B. Synodinou, PSAM 3 conference

PWR

0.48

HPAC: large cont. failure, vessel melt through, sprays off, unfiltered, 100%/hr, Hazard Prediction and Assessment Capability, Version 2.0, Defence Special Weapons Agency, Weapons Effects Division, March 1997.

0.22

HPAC:cont. leakage, in vessel core damage, sprays off, unfiltered,100%/hr, Hazard Prediction and Assessment Capability, Version 2.0, Defence Special Weapons Agency, Weapons Effects Division, March 1997.

0.13

HPAC:cont. bypass, vessel melt through, unfiltered, 100%/hr, Hazard Prediction and Assessment Capability, Version 2.0, Defence Special Weapons Agency, Weapons Effects Division, March 1997.

0.1-0.8

G. Sdouz, G. Sonneck and P. Hille, International Source Term Studies, Austrian Research Center Seibersdorf, 1993.

WASH-1400

0.4

B. Pershagen: Light water reactor safety, Pergamon press, Stockholm, 1989

German Risk Study Phase A

0.5

B. Pershagen: Light water reactor safety, Pergamon press, Stockholm, 1989

Ringhals 2 (PWR)

0.31

B. Pershagen: Light water reactor safety, Pergamon press, Stockholm, 1989

Zion, Surry, Sequoyah

0.2-0.4

B. Pershagen: Light water reactor safety, Pergamon press, Stockholm, 1989

0.2

H. Slaper, R.O. Blaauboer, G.J. Eggink: Risks of potential accidents of nuclear power plants in Europe, RIVM report 74030001, Bilthoven, the Netherlands, 1994.

BWR

Isar 1

0.12

HPAC: Containment bypass, unfiltered, vessel melt through, 100% / hr leakrate, Hazard Prediction and Assessment Capability, Version 2.0, Defence Special Weapons Agency, Weapons Effects Division, March 1997.

Isar 1

0.44

HPAC: Dry well containment failure/leakage, sprays off, unfiltered, in vessel core damage, 100% / hr leakrate, Hazard Prediction and Assessment Capability, Version 2.0, Defence Special Weapons Agency, Weapons Effects Division, March 1997.

Isar 1

0.44

HPAC: Dry well containment failure/leakage, sprays off, unfiltered, vessel melt through, 100% / hr leakrate, Hazard Prediction and Assessment Capability, Version 2.0, Defence Special Weapons Agency, Weapons Effects Division, March 1997.

0.1-0.35

G. Sdouz, G. Sonneck and P. Hille, International Source Term Studies, Austrian Research Center Seibersdorf, 1993.

WASH-1400

0.1-0.5

B. Pershagen: Light water reactor safety, Pergamon press, Stockholm, 1989

Ringhals 1

0.15-0.3

B. Pershagen: Light water reactor safety, Pergamon press, Stockholm, 1989

NUREG-1150: Grand Gulf, Peach Bottom

0.1-0.4

B. Pershagen: Light water reactor safety, Pergamon press, Stockholm, 1989

0.2

H. Slaper, R.O. Blaauboer, G.J. Eggink: Risks of potential accidents of nuclear power plants in Europe, RIVM report 74030001, Bilthoven, the Netherlands, 1994.