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Title: Loss of coolant accident (LOCA)
Post by: Rennhack on Nov 23, 2005, 04:42
Those postulated accidents that result in a loss of reactor coolant at a rate in excess of the capability of the reactor makeup system from breaks in the reactor coolant pressure boundary, up to and including a break equivalent in size to the double-ended rupture of the largest pipe of the reactor coolant system.