NUCLEAR FUEL IN THE «SHELTER» ENCASEMENT OF THE CHERNOBYL NPP

R. V. Arutyunyan, L. A. Bolshov, A. A. Borovoi, E. P. Velikhov, A. A. Klyuchnikov

The work generalizes and systematizes the results of multi-year studies of damaged nuclear fuel within the «Shelter» encasement. Existing data are assessed from viewpoint of completeness and validity. Methods and means for fuel studies within the «Shelter» and its local zone, models of fuel behavior in accidental conditions of the 4th Unit of the ChNPP (including the models developed and implemented in 1986) and fuel behavior during the «Shelter» transformation are presented in the book chapters.

This work is dedicated to workers of research and design institutes, lecturers of high school, engineers of power industry as well as general public interesting in safety of nuclear energy.

Bibliographical reference 

Nuclear fuel in the «Shelter» encasement of the Chernobyl NPP / R. V. Arutyunyan, L. A. Bolshov, A. A. Borovoi, E. P. Velikhov, A. A. Klyuchnikov. — M. : Nauka, 2010. — 240 p. : ill. — ISBN 978-5-02-037465-2 (bound).