Earthquakes represent a class of natural-technical (NaTech) hazards which in the past have
been responsible of major accidents and significant losses in many industrial sites …

The influence analysis of site condition is fundamental to the seismic design of nuclear
power plants. In this paper, a series of shaking table tests were performed to investigate the …

Seismic design practices and seismic response analyses of civil structures and nuclear
power plants (NPPs) have conventionally used the peak ground acceleration (PGA) or …

A new procedure for probabilistic seismic risk assessment of nuclear power plants (NPPs) is
proposed. This procedure modifies the current procedures using tools developed recently …

Seismic isolation of nuclear power plants is in its infancy, with only a small number of
applications worldwide. This outcome is due in part to the construction of only a small …

Standardizing advanced nuclear reactors is a pathway to substantially reducing their
overnight capital cost and achieving parity with other power sources, including renewables …

A novel machine learning (ML) framework is applied in map** intensity measures (IMs) to
seismic engineering demand parameter (EDP). It is an efficient and accurate approach to …

This paper aims to study the seismic mitigation of a typical nuclear small modular reactor
(SMR) where extreme loading conditions are considered by the safe shutdown earthquake …

Alkali silica reaction (ASR) is a nefarious one that has been observed in many dams. Its
recent discovery in a nuclear containment vessel structure (NCVS) in the US has taken the …

Horizontal seismic isolation is a viable approach to mitigate risk to structures, systems and
components (SSCs) in nuclear power plants (NPPs) under extreme ground shaking. This …