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Safety is always a concern when you hear there's going to be a nuclear plant right down the road. Images of Three Mile Island and Chernobyl are usually the first to come to mind. Allow me please to discuss process safety with nuclear power.
Some of the new Generation III+ reactor designs are dependent on natural occurrences for their safety, rather than upon mechanical devices and human operators. They are sometimes referred to as "inherently safe" reactors, although the label is subject to debate.
One such design is the Process-Inherent Ultimately Safe Reactor (PIUS) from Sweden. It is a pressurized light water reactor that is, itself, immersed in borated water and contained in thick, steel reinforced concrete walls. If the primary cooling system fails, the borated water automatically floods the core, which shuts down the reactor without operator intervention.
This type of reactor is much like the Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor...
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