Simulation und Sicherheit kerntechnischer Anlagen: Bochumer Beiträge

Since 1987, the Chair of Nuclear and New Energy Systems (NES) headed by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hermann Unger has been working, among other subjects, on projects of evaluating and improving the safety of nuclear facilities. The most important aspect in these efforts was the advanced development of the protection of people and the environment against the hazards and risks which may arise from those plants. On the occasion of Prof. Unger's seventieth birthday, a survey is presented of these Bochum Activities shaped by Professor Unger. The basis of this survey are the Ph.D. theses on nuclear topics written by staff scientists at Bochum over the past sixteen years. In addition to activities involving sodium cooled fast breeders, also studies of research rectors, probabilistic safety analyses, the interpretation, evaluation, and further development of international accident analysis codes and for modeling and simulating safety-related heat and matter transport processes are presented. From the fall of 2001 onward, these activities have been continued as a major research area of the Chair for Energy Systems and Power Economy (LEE). LEE, as NES before, is part of the Institute for Power Technology in the Mechanical Engineering Faculty of the Bochum Ruhr University..