Preliminary LOCA Analysis of Heating-Reactor of Advanced Low-Pressurized and Passive Safety System (HAPPY)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mian Xing ◽  
Zhaocan Meng ◽  
Xiaotao Liao ◽  
Canhui Sun ◽  
Shuming Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Design ◽  
District Heating ◽  
Central Research Institute ◽  
Safety System ◽  
Passive Safety ◽  
Central Research ◽  
Pressurized Water ◽  
Design And Optimization ◽  
Passive Safety System ◽  
Safety Features

SPICRI (State Power Investment Central Research Institute) is developing a new conceptual design of heating-reactor, named Heating-reactor of Advanced low-Pressurized and Passive safetY system (HAPPY), which is targeted for the district heating, desalination of seawater, and other heat applications. It is a 200MWth two-loop low-pressurized water reactor with low thermal parameters. The whole reactor vessel is deployed inside a shielding and cooling pool with thermal insulation measure. The conceptual design of HAPPY is described in this paper, including the design criteria, safety features, main parameters and main components. A preliminary safety analysis is carried out to provide a reference for the design and optimization of HAPPY. In this paper, four different LOCA analyses are described and compared. The results show that the current design can deal well with all the selected LOCA scenarios and the effectiveness of the safety systems is proved.

Test Analysis of CAP1400 5cm Break Accident Based on the ACME Test Facility

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheng Zhu
Keyword(s):  
System Design ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Reactor Core ◽  
Safety System ◽  
Test Facility ◽  
Passive Safety ◽  
Pressurized Water ◽  
Power Simulation ◽  
Passive Safety System ◽  
Core Cooling

CAP1400 is a large pressurized water reactor based on the passive safety conception. An ACME (Advanced Core-cooling Mechanism Experiment) facility has been designed and constructed in order to validate that the CAP1400 system design is acceptable to mitigate the loss of coolant accident (LOCA). The ACME test facility is an isotonic pressure, 1/3-scale height and 1/54.32-scale power simulation of the prototype CAP1400 nuclear power plant. It contains the main-loop system, passive safety system, secondary steam system and auxiliary system etc. The all of ACME test matrix including 5 kinds 21 cases .In this paper, the test results and the Realp5 prediction of the cold leg 5cm break accident of CAP1400 are compared and analyzed to briefly evaluate the ACME capability. Furthermore, 3 different types of 5cm cold leg break test cases are presented, and the transient process, system responses and key parameters tendency are analyzed based on the test. The results indicate that the passive safety system design can successfully combine to provide a continuous removal of core decay heat and the reactor core remains to be covered with considerable margin for the 3 different 5cm cold leg break accidents.

scholarly journals Simulation of the Westinghouse AP1000 Response to SBLOCA Using RELAP/SCDAPSIM

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayah Elshahat ◽  
Timothy Abram ◽  
Judith Hohorst ◽  
Chris Allison
Keyword(s):  
Driving Forces ◽  
Natural Circulation ◽  
Safety System ◽  
Operating Conditions ◽  
Severe Accident ◽  
Passive Safety ◽  
System Component ◽  
Pressurized Water ◽  
Loss Of Coolant Accident ◽  
Accident Conditions

Great interest is given now to advanced nuclear reactors especially those using passive safety components. The Westinghouse AP1000 Advanced Passive pressurized water reactor (PWR) is an 1117 MWe PWR designed to achieve a high safety and performance record. The AP1000 safety system uses natural driving forces, such as pressurized gas, gravity flow, natural circulation flow, and convection. In this paper, the safety performance of the AP1000 during a small break loss of coolant accident (SBLOCA) is investigated. This was done by modelling the AP1000 and the passive safety systems employed using RELAP/SCDAPSIM code. RELAP/SCDAPSIM is designed to describe the overall reactor coolant system (RCS) thermal hydraulic response and core behaviour under normal operating conditions or under design basis or severe accident conditions. Passive safety components in the AP1000 showed a clear improvement in accident mitigation. It was found that RELAP/SCDAPSIM is capable of modelling a LOCA in an AP1000 and it enables the investigation of each safety system component response separately during the accident. The model is also capable of simulating natural circulation and other relevant phenomena. The results of the model were compared to that of the NOTRUMP code and found to be in a good agreement.

Code validation on a passive safety system test with the SMART-ITL facility

2016 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Byong Guk Jeon ◽  
Yeon-Sik Cho ◽  
Hwang Bae ◽  
Yeon-Sik Kim ◽  
Sung-Uk Ryu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Safety System ◽  
Passive Safety ◽  
Code Validation ◽  
Passive Safety System

Assessment of passive safety system of a Small Modular Reactor (SMR)

2016 ◽  
Vol 98 ◽  
pp. 191-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hassan Nawaz Butt ◽  
Muhammad Ilyas ◽  
Masroor Ahmad ◽  
Fatih Aydogan
Keyword(s):  
Safety System ◽  
Passive Safety ◽  
Small Modular Reactor ◽  
Passive Safety System
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