• DocumentCode
    1348985
  • Title

    What went wrong IV: The Browns Ferry incident: Seeking air leaks with a candle at the TVA´s nuclear power plant, a worker found much more

  • Author

    Kaplan, G.

  • Volume
    13
  • Issue
    10
  • fYear
    1976
  • Firstpage
    55
  • Lastpage
    64
  • Abstract
    The candle flame that touched off the most severe fire in the history of US commercial nuclear power generation was being used by a plant worker to detect possible flaws in a feature designed to control the spread of fires. The incident is chronicled and lessons deduced from it are outlined.
  • Keywords
    fires; nuclear power stations; Browns Ferry; fire; nuclear power generation; Buildings; Cable TV; Cable insulation; Fires; Inductors; Standards; Valves;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Spectrum, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9235
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MSPEC.1976.6367549
  • Filename
    6367549
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1348985