scholarly journals The current state and prospects of the nuclear power industry of China

2021 ◽  
pp. 104-108
Author(s):  
F. F. Sharipov
Keyword(s):  
International Economic ◽  
National Economy ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Nuclear Energy ◽  
Power Industry ◽  
Nuclear Industry ◽  
Nuclear Power Industry ◽  
Current State ◽  
International Economic Cooperation ◽  
Technical Solutions

China’s nuclear energy ambitions, backed by the strong financial potential of the national economy, and the consequent desire to extend its successes in international economic cooperation to the nuclear industry have attracted the researchers’ attention to a closer examination of the current state and nuclear industry prospects of China, taking into account its technological component. The unfulfilled development plan for nuclear power in the 13th Five-Year Plan, as a result of systemic mistakes and failures in the projects selected for implementation, leads to the conclusion that it is necessary to involve foreign leaders in this field, including “Rosatom” corporation, which has in its portfolio virtually verified modern technical solutions. 

Nuclear Power Industry’s Risk Management and Safety Assurance on the Legal Mechanics Basis

Upravlenie ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 18-21
Author(s):  
Астафьева ◽  
O. Astafeva
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Energy Management ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Nuclear Energy ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Power Industry ◽  
Nuclear Industry ◽  
Nuclear Power Industry

The paper is dedicated to the legal regulation of risk management and safety in the nuclear power industry. Legal regulation of risk management and safety in the nuclear power industry can significantly increase the damage compensation. It is possible to involve nuclear power industry’s enterprises in the formation of measures for the safe use of nuclear energy by an effective legal system creation. The legal system should include national and international principles regulating the nuclear energy use. This will reduce the negative impact on the environment and ensure the nuclear industry’s energy safety. The main subjects involved in the nuclear energy management and regulation are principal, manufacturer, operating organization. The principal is the developer of normative legal acts which indicate the basic institutional requirements and provide for state regulation of safety when using of nuclear energy. This regulation is achieved by such methods as licensing and certification. The manufacturers are various subjects of productive activities in the frame of the nuclear energy objects’ life cycle, and entities for these objects design, construction, and operation. Safety in the area of nuclear energy use includes mandatory and discretionary methods for regulation of relations between different actors. Methods for legal regulation of the safety level in the nuclear industry come from the condition of ecological and economic optimality, selection of appropriate principles of the law in the nuclear energy area. A tool for improvement of the effectiveness related to legal instruments in the area of nuclear energy management and use is a system of norms, rules, and standards, regulating and providing the stages of energy resources’ extraction, production and consumption in the context of atomic power facilities safe operation and subject activities strict regulation.

scholarly journals QSL: Subliminal Messaging by the Nuclear Industry in Germany during the 1980s

Heritage ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 2054-2080
Author(s):  
Dirk H. R. Spennemann
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Nuclear Power Plants ◽  
Power Industry ◽  
Nuclear Industry ◽  
Nuclear Power Industry ◽  
Nuclear Movement ◽  
Political Pressure ◽  
Amateur Radio

During the late 1970s and early 1980s, the German nuclear power industry came under considerable socio-political pressure from the growing environmental and anti-nuclear movement. As part of a diversified public relations strategy, the Kraftwerk Union (KWU, later Siemens) as the main manufacturer of nuclear power plants distributed pre-printed QSL cards to amateur radio enthusiasts. These cards carried images of the latest nuclear power plants built by KWU. This paper examines the history, iconography and distribution of these QSL cards in the context of the heritage of the German nuclear power industry. It is the first study of its kind to examine the heritage significance of QSL cards.

PROSPECTS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF RUSSIAN NUCLEAR ENERGY IN THE GLOBAL ENERGY MARKET

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (8) ◽  
pp. 164-174
Author(s):  
Zh. V. IVANOVSKAYA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
International Cooperation ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Nuclear Energy ◽  
Power Industry ◽  
Energy Sector ◽  
Nuclear Power Industry ◽  
Energy Market ◽  
State Support ◽  
Global Energy ◽  
State Corporation

The prospects of the Russian nuclear power industry depend on many factors, including economic, technological, political, social, and other aspects of the development of the global energy market. To increase the competitiveness of the Russian nuclear power industry, it is necessary to strengthen the existing advantages of Rosatom State Corporation, as well as state support for programs aimed at the development of nuclear technologies, both in the energy sector and in other sectors of the economy, including healthcare. The issues of developing international cooperation are particularly relevant when realizing the export potential of Russian nuclear energy.

The U.S. Nuclear Power Industry: Past, Present, and Possible Futures

2002 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
John L. Jurewitz
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Power ◽  
The United States ◽  
Power Industry ◽  
Nuclear Industry ◽  
Nuclear Power Industry ◽  
Critical Question ◽  
Generation Capacity ◽  
Ultimate Outcome ◽  
Social Confrontation ◽  
The U.S

Although the United States generates only about 20% of its total electricity from nuclear power, it has almost twice as much nuclear generation capacity as any other country. This article presents an historical overview of the U.S. nuclear power industry and the policies that have shaped it. The U.S. nuclear industry is currently at a crossroads. The total number of nuclear powerplants has been virtually constant for over a decade. Over the coming years, it seems likely that the owners of most existing plants will succeed in securing extensions of their operating licenses. The critical question is whether new nuclear capacity will be built. Although it seems likely that some utility will attempt to build a new nuclear plant within the next decade, any such attempt will encounter a degree of public opposition based on environmental and security concerns. The ultimate outcome of this social confrontation is difficult to forecast.

scholarly journals South Korea’s nuclear power industry: recovering from scandal

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-57
Author(s):  
Philip Andrews-Speed
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Public Procurement ◽  
Power Industry ◽  
Nuclear Safety ◽  
Nuclear Industry ◽  
Nuclear Power Industry ◽  
Government Support ◽  
Station Blackout ◽  
One Year

Abstract South Korea has one of the world’s more established nuclear power industries with its first commercial reactors being commissioned in 1978. The growth of nuclear power capacity had relied on sustained government support and close coordination with key state-owned enterprises. The tight relationship between politicians, government and companies has resulted in what is colloquially known as the ‘nuclear mafia’. One year after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident in Japan, Korea’s nuclear industry suffered its own crises in 2012. The first was a station blackout at the Kori 1 reactor, the country’s oldest, which was not reported for over a month. The second set of revelations concerned systematic malfeasance along the nuclear supply chain involving the falsification of reports of safety tests on nuclear parts and equipment. Revisions to the Nuclear Safety Act gave greater powers to the newly created Nuclear Safety and Security Commission and placed new reporting obligations on all actors along the nuclear supply chain. These measures were supplemented by more general legislation and regulations on public procurement, the conduct of public officials and corruption. Whilst these steps have the potential to improve governance and integrity in the country’s nuclear power industry, some of the underlying causes of the earlier weaknesses remain. As a consequence, the transformation of Korea’s nuclear industry will be a long process.

History of Fire Events in the U.S. Commercial Nuclear Industry

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bijan Najafi ◽  
Robert P. Kassawara ◽  
Francisco Joglar-Biloch ◽  
Yehia Khalil
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Fire Protection ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Fire Risk ◽  
Power Industry ◽  
Nuclear Industry ◽  
Nuclear Power Industry ◽  
Events Data ◽  
The U.S

Over the past decade, interest in performance-based fire protection has increased within the nuclear industry. In support of this growing interest, in 1997 the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) developed a long-range plan to develop/improve data and tools needed to support Risk-Informed/Performance-Based fire protection. This plan calls for continued improvement in collection and use of information obtained from fire events at nuclear plants. The data collection process has the objectives of improving the insights gained from such data and reducing the uncertainty in fire risk and fire modeling methods in order to make them a more reliable basis for performance based fire protection programs. In keeping with these objectives, EPRI continues to collect, review and analyze fire events in support of the nuclear industry. EPRI collects these records in cooperation with the Nuclear Electric Insurance Limited (NEIL), by compiling public fire event reports and by direct solicitation of U.S. nuclear facilities. EPRI fire data collection project is based on the principle that the understanding of history is one of the cornerstones of improving fire protection technology and practice. Therefore, the goal has been to develop and maintain a comprehensive database of fire events with flexibility to support various aspects of fire protection engineering. With more than 1850 fire records over a period of three decades and 2400 reactor years, this is the most comprehensive database of nuclear power industry fire events in existence today. In general, the frequency of fires in the U.S. commercial nuclear industry remains constant. In few cases, e.g., transient fires and fires in BWR offgas/recombiner systems, where either increasing or decreasing trends are observed, these trends tend to slow after 1980. The key issues in improving quality of the data remain to be consistency of the recording and reporting of fire events and difficulties in collection of records. EPRI has made significant progress towards improving the quality of the fire events data through use of multiple collection methods as well as its review and verification. To date EPRI has used this data to develop a generic fire ignition frequency model for U.S. nuclear power industry (Ref. 1, 4 and 5) as well as to support other models in support of EPRI Fire Risk Methods such as a cable fire manual suppression model. EPRI will continue its effort to collect and analyze operating data to support risk informed/performance based fire safety engineering, including collection and analysis of impairment data for fire protection systems and features. This paper provides details on the collection and application of fire events to risk informed/performance based fire protection. The paper also provides valuable insights into improving both collection and use of fire events data.

Prospect of MAO Technology Application in Nuclear Power Industry

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zheng Zhao ◽  
Beibei Feng ◽  
Xingtuan Yang ◽  
Yanfei Sun
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Nuclear Reactor ◽  
Zirconium Alloys ◽  
Power Industry ◽  
Nuclear Industry ◽  
Nuclear Power Industry ◽  
Automotive Electronics ◽  
Treatment Technology ◽  
Technology Application ◽  
Micro Arc Oxidation

Micro arc oxidation (MAO) technology known as a newly surface treatment technology has got a widely application in the field of aviation, aerospace, automotive, electronics, and medical industry. Strength, toughness, hardness and corrosion of valve metal such as aluminum, magnesium, copper, zinc, zirconium and their alloys can be greatly improved by MAO technology. This paper tries to probe into the feasibility of using MAO technology in nuclear power industry. Aluminum and its alloys are used as structural materials such as the cladding of reactor fuel and all kinds of pipes in the low nuclear reactor. Zirconium alloys are widely used for the fuel cladding, cannula, catheter and other components of the fuel assemblies. Titanium and its alloys offer a unique combination of desirable mechanical properties which makes them to be the candidate materials for structural application in the field of nuclear energy. The surface of all these materials may be destroyed which increasing the risk of the nuclear accident due to the severe serving conditions. As a result, it is necessary to improve the corrosion and wear resistance behavior. With the urgent requirements of safety and durability of nuclear reactor, MAO technology must have a broad prospect in nuclear industry.

Application and Innovation of Equipment Reliability Management in Nuclear Power Stations

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ju F. Zhang ◽  
Shi J. Chen ◽  
Jiang Hong
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Power Industry ◽  
Nuclear Industry ◽  
Nuclear Power Industry ◽  
Reliability Management ◽  
Power Stations ◽  
Equipment Reliability ◽  
Management Concepts ◽  
Management Technology

Equipment reliability is a key factor to achieve excellent production capability and maintain high security for nuclear power stations. As the modern nuclear power industry develops in China, much effort is devoted to promoting the research on application of advanced equipment reliability management concepts and technologies. Besides the introduction and convergence of external advanced methods, some domestic innovations on equipment reliability technologies have also been accomplished recent years based on the long-term research and operating experience. These new ideas and technologies are fostered within the rapid development of China nuclear industry in the near decade, and aim at solving the emergent and common issues. As a typical representative of advanced equipment reliability management technology, INPO (Institute of Nuclear Power Operations) AP-913 equipment reliability process is accepted universally in global nuclear power industry and has been recommended by EPRI (Electric Power Research Institute), INPO and other authoritative organizations worldwide. It was originally introduced by many nuclear power stations in China as a reference model to establish their own equipment reliability management systems. As continuous research, attempts and ameliorations conducted, domestic innovations have been performed to develop more comprehensive and adaptive equipment reliability management technology, including integrating many existing reliability technologies, such as RCM, CCM, TCM, PFU, COMIS, and so on. This paper introduces some new research achievements on implementation of INPO AP-913 equipment reliability process at nuclear power stations in China. For each section contained in AP-913 process, the primary plans and suggestions proposed to meet the basic intent of AP-913 is firstly introduced to establish the practicable access for further development. And then, some improvement-step strategies and technologies are also presented to perform more sophisticated and effective management to improve equipment reliability in routine work. Finally, based on the actual conditions and demands of China nuclear power industry nowadays, some comprehension and advice beyond AP-913 process itself, which can also be considered as the localized modification, are presented. Moreover, the instance of AP-913 based equipment reliability management and development in Da Ya Bay Nuclear Power Station is also introduced as illustration. For Chinese nuclear power stations, these innovative attempts not only impelled the sustainable improvement of equipment management, but also exploited a feasible and compatible way to progress in Chinese nuclear industry pattern independently instead of seeking external support overseas.

THE USE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY FOR MILITARY AND CIVILIAN PURPOSES SAFETY IN THE NUCLEAR POWER INDUSTRY

2017 ◽  
Vol 185 (3) ◽  
pp. 106-123
Author(s):  
Roman JÓŹWIK
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Nuclear Energy ◽  
Power Industry ◽  
Nuclear Power Industry ◽  
Basic Information ◽  
Safety Assurance ◽  
Emergency Shutdown ◽  
History Of ◽  
Energy Formation ◽  
Near Future

The purpose of the article was to gather the basic information about the mechanism be-hind nuclear energy formation and the types of reactors, already built worldwide or poten-tially planned for construction in the near future, and to present the history of the begin-nings of nuclear power in Poland. The issues of the safety of reactors, independent safety assurance systems and systems for emergency shutdown of a reactor are discussed in more detail. The problem of responsibility for the safety of nuclear equipment is also ex-amined, including the relevant authority and method for such safety inspection. The initia-tives taken in Poland in connection with the programme for the nuclear power industry are also described.

scholarly journals Online Simulation of Nuclear Power Plant Primary Systems

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Hongyun Xie ◽  
Haixia Gu ◽  
Chao Lu ◽  
Jialin Ping
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Power Plant ◽  
Nuclear Power Plant ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Measurement Data ◽  
Reactor Core ◽  
Power Industry ◽  
Nuclear Power Industry ◽  
Online Simulation

Real-time Simulation (RTS) has long been used in the nuclear power industry for operator training and engineering purposes. And, online simulation (OLS) is based on RTS and with connection to the plant information system to acquire the measurement data in real time for calibrating the simulation models and following plant operation, for the purpose of analyzing plant events and providing indicative signs of malfunctioning. OLS has been applied in certain industries to improve safety and efficiency. However, it is new to the nuclear power industry. A research project was initiated to implement OLS to assist operators in certain critical nuclear power plant (NPP) operations to avoid faulty conditions. OLS models were developed to simulate the reactor core physics and reactor/steam generator thermal hydraulics in real time, with boundary conditions acquired from plant information system, synchronized in real time. The OLS models then were running in parallel with recorded plant events to validate the models, and the results are presented.

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