Seismic Test Result of the Main Steam Isolation Valve for Japanese Boiling Water Reactor Nuclear Power Plants

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoshitaka Tsutsumi ◽  
Koji Nishino ◽  
Itabashi Hideaki ◽  
Shin Kumagai
Author(s):  
Hideaki Itabashi ◽  
Yoshitaka Tsutsumi ◽  
Koji Nishino ◽  
Shin Kumagai

Abstract The functional requirements of Main Steam Isolation Valves (MSIVs) provided in the Boiling Water Reactor (BWR) nuclear power plants in Japan have been previously evaluated via seismic tests and so forth. However, since the response acceleration has increased in line with a recent reassessment of standard earthquake ground motions, it is necessary to evaluate seismic operability with respect to high acceleration. In addition, from the viewpoint of equipment fragility in seismic PRA, it is necessary to determine practical seismic operability limits. We used a resonant shaking table in the Central Research Institute of the Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI), which is capable of seismic tests at acceleration levels previously unachievable, and in seismic tests carried out on an MSIV, we obtained results confirming that validated seismic operability was possible even at response accelerations as high as 15 × 9.8 m/s2. The seismic operability results obtained for this MSIV will be applied to a fragility analysis of seismic PRA.


Author(s):  
Koji Nishino ◽  
Yoshitaka Tsutsumi ◽  
Kazuyoshi Yonekura ◽  
Nobuo Kojima ◽  
Yukio Watanabe ◽  
...  

The functional requirements of Main Steam Safety Relief Valves (SRVs) provided in Boiling Water Reactor (BWR) nuclear power plants in Japan have been previously evaluated via seismic tests and so forth; however, since the response acceleration has increased in line with a recent reassessment of standard earthquake ground motions, it is necessary to evaluate seismic operability with respect to high acceleration. In addition, from the viewpoint of equipment fragility in seismic PRA also, it is necessary to determine the practical seismic operability limits. We used a resonant shaking table in the Central Research Institute of the Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI) [1], which is capable of seismic tests at acceleration levels that have been unachievable until now, and in seismic tests carried out on an SRV, we obtained results confirming that validated seismic operability was possible even at response accelerations as high as 20×9.8 m/s2. The seismic operability results obtained for this SRV will be applied to a fragility analysis of seismic PRA.


Atomic Energy ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 558-563 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu. I. Mityaev ◽  
Yu. I. Tokarev ◽  
I. N. Sokolov ◽  
�. �. Pakkh ◽  
V. I. Abramov

1984 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 2219-2224
Author(s):  
K. Hirata ◽  
T. Tojo ◽  
Y. Murata ◽  
K. Niki ◽  
H. Nakai ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Gueorgui I. Petkov ◽  
Monica Vela-Garcia

The realistic study of dynamic accident context is an invaluable tool to address the uncertainties and their impact on safety assessment and management. The capacities of the performance evaluation of teamwork (PET) procedure for dynamic context quantification and determination of alternatives, coordination, and monitoring of human performance and decision-making are discussed in this paper. The procedure is based on a thorough description of symptoms during the accident scenario progressions with the use of thermo-hydraulic (TH) model and severe accident (SA) codes (melcor and maap). The opportunities of PET procedure for context quantification are exemplified for the long-term station blackout (LT SBO) accident scenario at Fukushima Daiichi #1 and a hypothetic unmitigated LT SBO at peach bottom #1 boiling water reactor (BWR) reactor nuclear power plants (NPPs). The context quantification of these LT SBO scenarios is based on the IAEA Fukushima Daiichi accident report, “State-of-the-Art Reactor Consequence Analysis” and TH calculations made by using maap code at the EC Joint Research Centre.


Author(s):  
Masato Watanabe ◽  
Motonori Nakagami

The activated radioactivity of turbine equipments irradiated by neutron originating from 17N in the main stream is evaluated for an introduction of clearance system to boiling-water reactor (BWR) plant. The 17N, main neutron source is generated by 17O(n, p)17N reaction in the core region. The evaluation results clarified that the activated radioactivity of the turbine equipment is extremely small comparing to the clearance level. The feature of the evaluation is as follows. (1) Actual radioactive concentration of the 17N in the main steam in Hamaoka nuclear power station unit 5 (Hamaoka-5) which is an advanced boiling-water reactor (ABWR) was measured with solid-state track detector (SSTD). The 17N concentration is used for the neutron transport calculation as initial neutron sources. (2) The turbine equipments were modeled as two-dimensional geometry for DORT code. (3) Activation cross-sections for major nuclides subject to the clearance evaluation were based on JENDL3.3 on 175 energy group structure (VITAMIN-J). (4) Minor nuclides subject to the clearance evaluation were calculated with ORIGEN-S code.


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