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[en] The pressure suppression containment is an important barrier for the boiling water reactor (BWR) safety design and the suppression pool is the major feature of the pressure suppression containment design. The main function of the suppression pool is to condense the steam blowdown in a loss-of-coolant accident (LOCA). The containment pressure and temperature response in a LOCA is a major issue addressed in the Final Safety Analysis Report (FSAR) of a nuclear power plant. The suppression pool is modeled by one lumped node in most licensing applications. Recently, multi-dimensional models are developed for the pool mixing effect. This study takes the ABWR containment of the Lungmen plant in Taiwan as the reference plant, and the containment response is analyzed using GOTHIC. The suppression pool is modeled by lumped, one-dimensional and multi-dimensional approaches. The lumped model implies that the pool is perfectly mixed. On the contrary, the one-dimensional model prohibits the internal convection of the suppression pool. The multidimensional models can perform the internal convection induced by the suction of the Emergency Core Cooling Systems. Based on the results, the lumped model would be more appropriate than the one-dimensional model because the multi-dimensional results show that the suppression pool can be well mixed. Although the one-dimensional model may predict unreal pool stratification, it may be used in specific applications with artificial conservatism. (authors)
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Societe Francaise d'Energie Nucleaire (SFEN), 75 - Paris (France); 3390 p; 2015; p. 2086-2093; ICAPP 2015: Nuclear Innovations for a low-carbon future; Nice (France); 3-6 May 2015; Available (USB stick) from: SFEN, 103 rue Reaumur, 75002 Paris (France); 11 refs.; This record replaces 48095398
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[en] The nuclear accident of Fukushima Daiichi reveals that Station Blackout (SBO) may last longer than 8 hours. However, the original design may not have sufficient capacity and capability to cope with a SBO for more than 8 hours. In view of this, Taiwan Power Company has initiated several improvement works to enhance the plant capability against SBO. Based on the improved plant configuration, a SBO coping analysis is performed in this study in order to assess whether the Lungmen ABWR plant has the capability to cope with SBO for 24 hours with respect to maintaining the integrity of the reactor core. The steam driven Reactor Core Isolation Cooling (RCIC) system provides water to the reactor vessel during SBO. Major factors affecting RCIC's functionality during the event have been assessed and identified, including -1) reactor monitoring function, -2) steam supply to the RCIC turbine, -3) DC battery capacity, -4) water source inventory, -5) RCIC room temperature, and -6) Main Control Room temperature. Lungmen ABWR plant has an additional feature of core cooling, which is AC Independent Water Addition (ACIWA) mode of RHR. ACIWA allows water from the Fire Protection System (FPS) to be pumped to the vessel. The analyses are performed using RETRAN-3D models. Two categories of SBO scenarios are considered, one with reactor pressure vessel depressurization and another one with no reactor pressure vessel depressurization. The depressurization process is through manual opening of the SRV/ADS. For the depressurization case, the reactor pressure is reduced to a value of approximately 180 psia such that the low- pressure ACIWA can be used as a backup core cooling system in case of RCIC failure. Sensitivity study is also performed to evaluate the effect of different RCIC available time on the response of the reactor water level. The minimum required available time for the RCIC operation to maintain the core integrity during the extended SBO period of 24 hours is then identified. (authors)
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Societe Francaise d'Energie Nucleaire (SFEN), 75 - Paris (France); 3390 p; 2015; p. 2360-2365; ICAPP 2015: Nuclear Innovations for a low-carbon future; Nice (France); 3-6 May 2015; Available (USB stick) from: SFEN, 103 rue Reaumur, 75002 Paris (France); 2 refs.; This record replaces 48095430
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Hsiao, T.-Y.; Lin Chaung; Yuann, Y.R., E-mail: dyshiau@iner.gov.tw2010
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[en] In order to aid operators in identifying the different initiating events as defined in the Final Safety Analysis Report (FSAR), we develop a novel identification procedure. The procedure is based on the monitoring of three key system parameters in a pressurized water reactor (PWR), i.e., the pressure, the average temperature, and the temperature difference of the hot-leg and cold-leg of the reactor coolant system. By monitoring the system thermal state diagram in a pressure-temperature space, an operator can easily identify what initiating event is taking place while a static point in the diagram starts to move. The event data pool is first established by storing the transient analysis results for events of different types using the optimal estimated RELAP5 model. Since the variation ranges of system key parameters at a specific time represent the specific character for each initiating event, the identification procedure can easily determine which cases in which the event data pool can be fitted to on-line data using only variation range comparison without complex calculations. This identification method is believed to be able to help the plant operator to identify the different events and then execute the Emergency Operating Procedure more effectively.
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