Evaluation of Suitability of Cooling Water System of Nuclear Power Plant in Egypt Using ERICA and RESRAD Biota Models

A coordinated program is described for developing information needed for designing a condenser cooling water system for a nuclear power plant located on a large estuary to meet State water quality standards and minimize any adverse effects on aquatic life. The paper discusses estuarine conditions pertinent to the design of the intake and discharge structures, the heat assimilative capacity of the estuary, application of the momentum jet theory to the condenser cooling water discharges, and hydraulic model investigations to determine mixing and dispersion patterns.

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Study on the Interaction Between Safety-Related and Non Safety-Related Items in the Component Cooling Water System Room of the Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant in the Earthquake Condition

Volume 1: Beyond Design Basis; Codes and Standards; Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD); Decontamination and Decommissioning; Nuclear Fuel and Engineering; Nuclear Plant Engineering ◽

10.1115/icone2020-16825 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Liang Zhang ◽

Gang Xu ◽

Yue Wang ◽

Li Chen ◽

Shao Chong Zhou

Keyword(s):

Power Plant ◽

Nuclear Power Plant ◽

Nuclear Power ◽

Power Plants ◽

Water System ◽

Cooling Water ◽

Life Extension ◽

Main Body ◽

Cooling Water System ◽

The Impact

Abstract Safety-related items in nuclear power plants are now generally placed separately from the non-safety-related items, but it was not strictly required before. Therefore, it is very important to study whether the non-safety-related items will affect the safety-related items when they are dropped down in an earthquake situation, which determines the safety of a nuclear power plant and its future life extension applications. This research was based on the cooling water system room with the safety and non-safety related items installed together, as an example to study whether the non-safety-related items such as vent pipes and DN50 fire fighting pipes arranged above will damage the DN300 pipes and valves arranged below when earthquakes occur. For the experiments, the relative positions of objects in the room was reproduced by 1: 1. The pressure-holding performance of the pipe was used as a criterion for the damage. The research results of the experiments show that when the 10-meter-long DN50 pipe was dropped from the position of 8 meters height and the 8-meter-long vent dropped from position of 3.6 meters height, they do not affect the integrity of the DN300 valve and pipe below. After the experiment, pressure drop in two hours for the pipe is less than 0.1%. The main body of the valve does not fail neither. The numerical simulation study also shows that there is no failure phenomenon in the simulation as well. Compared with the test results, the impact acceleration and the vent deformation both have the same trend.

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Failure analysis on leaked titanium tubes of seawater heat exchangers in recirculating cooling water system of coastal nuclear power plant

Engineering Failure Analysis ◽

10.1016/j.engfailanal.2019.03.018 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 101 ◽

pp. 172-179 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Yi Gong ◽

Fu-Qiu Ma ◽

Yun Xue ◽

Cai-Shan Jiao ◽

Zhen-Guo Yang

Keyword(s):

Power Plant ◽

Nuclear Power Plant ◽

Failure Analysis ◽

Heat Exchangers ◽

Nuclear Power ◽

Water System ◽

Cooling Water ◽

Cooling Water System

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Ultrasonic Inspection of Large Diameter Polyethylene Pipe Used in Nuclear Power Plant

Volume 6B: Materials and Fabrication ◽

10.1115/pvp2014-28609 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Jianfeng Shi ◽

Dongsheng Hou ◽

Weican Guo ◽

Yaoda Zhou ◽

Xia Chen ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Power Plant ◽

Nuclear Power Plant ◽

Nuclear Power ◽

Power Plants ◽

Large Diameter ◽

Ultrasonic Inspection ◽

Water System ◽

Cooling Water ◽

Operating Pressure ◽

Traditional Natural

Polyethylene (PE) pipe has many advantages such as good flexibility, corrosion resistance and long service life. It has been introduced into nuclear power plants for transportation of cooling water both in U.S. and Europe. Recently, one Chinese nuclear power plant in Zhejiang Province also introduced four polyethylene pipelines in essential cooling water system with operating pressure of 0.6MPa and operating temperature of no more than 60°C. The PE pipes used in this nuclear power plant are DN762 SDR9 (30in OD, 3.3in wall), which are much larger and thicker than traditional natural gas PE pipe. As the pipe wall is so thick that the ultrasonic phased array instrument used in inspection of PE pipe with diameter less than 400mm has been improved. Results of field inspection in the Sanmen nuclear plant are reported, and the presented ultrasonic inspection technique proves to be effective for high density polyethylene (HDPE) pipe of large size in nuclear power plant.

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Survival of Young Fish in the Discharge Canal of a Nuclear Power Plant

Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada ◽

10.1139/f71-156 ◽

1971 ◽

Vol 28 (7) ◽

pp. 1057-1060 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

Barton C. Marcy Jr.

Keyword(s):

Power Plant ◽

Nuclear Power Plant ◽

Nuclear Power ◽

Fish Larvae ◽

Juvenile Fish ◽

Water System ◽

Cooling Water ◽

Young Fish ◽

Discharge Canal ◽

Sampling Points

No young fish of nine species entrained in the condenser cooling-water system of a nuclear power plant survived passage to the lower end of the plant's 1.83-km (1.14-mile) discharge canal when water temperatures were above 30 C. Temperatures in the canal remained above 30 C during 95% of the period during which the fish larvae and juveniles were collected near the plant's intake. A field observation device was developed to keep alive for counting those larvae and juvenile fish that survived passage to sampling points in the system.

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Vulnerability and Survival of Young Connecticut River Fish Entrained at a Nuclear Power Plant

Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada ◽

10.1139/f73-190 ◽

1973 ◽

Vol 30 (8) ◽

pp. 1195-1203 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Barton C. Marcy Jr.

Keyword(s):

Power Plant ◽

Nuclear Power Plant ◽

Nuclear Power ◽

Prolonged Exposure ◽

Tidal Flow ◽

Mechanical Damage ◽

Water System ◽

Cooling Water ◽

Connecticut River ◽

River Fish

Most of the young fish of nine species that were entrained in the condenser cooling-water system of the Connecticut Yankee nuclear power plant were dead by the time they reached the lower end of the plant’s 1.83-km (1.14 mile) long discharge canal. Sampling during June and July, when 95% of the nonscreenable fish were abundant near the plant’s intake, showed that approximately 80% of the mortality in the canal was caused by mechanical damage and 20% was attributed to heat shock and prolonged exposure to temperatures elevated above 28 C. There was no measurable mortality due to the injection of sodium hypochlorite into the system as a biocide. The number of nonscreenable living fish entrained at the intake averaged about 4% (range, 1.7–5.8%) of those passing by the plant under conditions of unidirectional net tidal flow.

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