Investigation into the in-box LOCA consequence and structural integrity of the KO HCCR TBM in ITER

Korea has developed a Helium Cooled Ceramic Reflector (HCCR) Test Blanket Module (TBM) and its auxiliary system in ITER. In parallel with its design, safety analysis has performed including accident analysis with the selected reference accidents. Among them, the effect of in-box LOCA to the structural integrity of the TBM was investigated. From the transient analysis of the GAMMA-FR on the in-box LOCA, it is found that the pressure of the internal TBM can be increased up to 8 MPa with the same pressure of the operating coolant through the Tritium Extraction System (TES) and He purge lines in the TBM. Structural analysis with ANSYS code for TBM was performed with this condition and it is confirmed that the TBM can endure and it does not affect the ITER machine by the failure.     

Current status of accident analysis for Korean HCCR TBS

Korea has decided to test Helium Cooled Ceramic Reflector (HCCR) Test Blanket Module (TBM) in ITER and design of the TBM with its ancillary systems, i.e. Test Blanket System (TBS), is under progress. Since the TBM is operated at elevated temperature with high heat load, safety consideration is essential in design procedure. In this paper, preliminary accident analysis results for the current HCCR TBS design on selected scenarios are presented as an important part of safety assessments. To simulate transient thermo-hydraulic behavior, GAMMA-FR code which has been developed in Korea for fusion applications was used. The main cooling and tritium extraction circuit systems, as well as the TBM, were simulated and the main components in the TBS were modeled as the associated heat structures. The important accident scenarios were produced and summarized in the paper considering the HCCR TBS design and ITER conditions, which cover in-vessel Loss Of Coolant Accident (LOCA), in-box LOCA, ex-vessel LOCA, Loss Of Flow Accident (LOFA), Loss Of Heat Sink Accident (LOHSA) and purge pipe rupture case. The accident analysis based on the selected scenarios was performed and it was found that the current design of the HCCR TBS meets the thermo-hydraulic safety requirements.     

LOCA analysis for Korean helium cooled solid breeder TBM

One of the major ITER goals is test blanket module (TBM) program which is for the demonstration of the breeding capability that would lead to tritium self-sufficiency in a reactor and the extraction of high-grade heat suitable for electricity generation under the ITER fusion environment. While the engineering design of Korean helium cooled solid breeder (HCSB) TBM and its ancillary systems has been performed, a safety assessment on different possible accident scenarios should be carried out for the purpose of licensing. In this paper, accident analyses for several loss of coolant accident (LOCA) cases were performed in order to assess safety aspects of the TBM design using RELAP5/MOD3.2. Since the TBM forms a loop with helium cooling system (HCS) which is one of ancillary systems required for removing heat deposited in the TBM by neutron wall loading and surface heat flux from plasma, it is necessary to model the complete loop for accident analysis. In this study, the helium passage including the TBM and HCS was nodalized for each accident scenario. The TBM and HCS components were modeled as the associated heat structures provided by RELAP5 to include heat transfer across solid boundaries. Based on computational results it was found that current design of the TBM is robust from the safety point of view.     

Design and R&D progress of Korean HCCR TBM

Korea plans to test a Helium Cooled Ceramic Reflector (HCCR) Test Blanket Module (TBM) in ITER. The HCCR TBM adopts a four sub-module concept considering the fabricability and the transfer of irradiated TBM for post irradiation examination. Each sub-module has seven-layer breeding zone, including three neutron multiplier layers packed with beryllium pebbles, three lithium ceramic pebble bed packed tritium breeder layers, and a reflector layer packed with graphite pebbles. Based on this configuration, neutronic and electromagnetic calculations were performed and their results were applied for the conceptual design of HCCR TBM that considers manufacturing feasibility. Also, a design and safety analysis of HCCR Test Blanket System (TBS) was performed using integrated design tools modifying nuclear system codes for helium coolant and tritium behavior evaluation. The Advanced Reduced Activation Alloy (ARAA) is being developed as a structural material. A total of 73 candidate ARAA alloys were designed and their out-of-pile performance was evaluated. The graphite pebbles as the neutron reflector were fabricated by using mechanical machining and grounding method with the surface coated with SiC. The hydrogen permeation characteristics of structural materials were evaluated using the Hydrogen PERmeation (HYPER) facility. The recent design and R&D progress on these areas are addressed in this paper.     

自然循环反应堆NHR-200Ⅱ失水事故初步研究

破口事故是压水堆最为关注的一类重要事故，其失水量与事故后果严重程度密切相关。NHR-200Ⅱ是由清华大学核能与新能源技术研究院经过多年研究和不断改进，设计的一种全功率自然循环低温供热反应堆，其设计中采用了多种先进的非能动和固有安全设计。本研究针对NHR-200Ⅱ反应堆，选取后果最为严重的控制棒引水管断裂且无法隔离事故，利用系统热工瞬态分析程序对事故过程进行了模拟和分析。结果表明，即使在最严重的破口失水事故下，NHR-200Ⅱ主回路中剩余的冷却剂始终能覆盖反应堆堆芯，并有效通过非能动余热载出系统带走堆芯热量，从而保证反应堆堆芯不会因裸露造成烧毁，这表明NHR-200Ⅱ具有很好的安全特性。     

超临界快堆给水控制失效瞬态控制分析

超临界快堆是一次通过循环,瞬态安全特性不同于现有的轻水堆.以控制棒、汽轮机主进汽阀、反应堆冷却剂泵作为超临界快堆的控制方式,在给水控制系统失效瞬态事故工况下,研究该堆采用不同控制方式时,反应堆内压力、功率、冷却剂温度、冷却剂质量流量及包壳表面温度等参数随时间的变化情况.结果表明:采用汽轮机主进汽阀与控制棒联合控制时,反...     

Status and progress of Indian LLCB test blanket systems for ITER

The lead–lithium ceramic breeder (LLCB) TBM and its auxiliary systems are being developed by India for testing in ITER machine. The LLCB TBM consists of lithium titanate as ceramic breeder (CB) material in the form of packed pebble beds. The FW structural material is ferritic martensitic steel cooled by high-pressure helium gas and lead–lithium eutectic (Pb–Li) flowing separately around the ceramic breeder pebble bed to extract the nuclear heat from the CB zones. Low-pressure helium is purged inside the CB zone for in situ extraction of bred tritium. Currently the LLCB blanket design optimization is under progress. The performance of tritium breeding and high-grade heat extraction is being evaluated by neutronic analysis and thermal–hydraulic calculations for different LLCB cooling configurations and geometrical design variants. The LLCB TBM auxiliary systems such as, helium cooling system (HCS), lead–lithium cooling system (LLCS), tritium extraction system (TES) process design are under progress. Safety analysis of the LLCB test blanket system (TBS) is under progress for the contribution to preliminary safety report of ITER-TBMs. This paper will present the status of the LLCB TBM design, process integration design (PID) of the auxiliary systems and preliminary safety analysis results.     

SARAX程序系统在钠冷快堆瞬态分析中的应用

无保护事故下的瞬态分析是钠冷快堆安全分析的重要内容。基于OECD/NEA发布的MOX-3600和MET-1000基准题，本文利用SARAX程序系统对不同钠冷快堆进行了瞬态计算，分析了堆内各种反应性反馈效应，并计算了无保护失流(ULOF)事故和无保护超功率运行(UTOP)事故下燃料温度和冷却剂温度的变化。计算结果表明：SARAX程序系统在快堆瞬态分析中可给出合理的参数预测结果；ULOF事故对于钠冷快堆是更为严重的事故瞬态，会导致堆内的钠沸腾进而发生严重事故。     

Accident analysis on supercritical water-cooled reactor during design basis and beyond design-basis condition

Supercritical water-cooled reactor (SCWR) is the only water-cooled reactor among six Generation IV reactor concepts. Safety analysis is one of the most important tasks for SCWR design. A typical thermal spectrum SCWR with passive safety system during design-basis accident (DBA) and beyond design-basis accident (BDBA) is performed. For DBA, reactor system is modeled based on a revised code ATHLET-SC. Loss of coolant accident is chosen to perform safety analysis and sensitive analysis. The results achieved demonstrate the feasibility of proposed passive cooling system to provide sufficient cooling. However, it should be noted that if one of safety systems fails to actuate during loss of coolant accident, although the likelihood is fairly low, there is potential risk of cladding failure. Consequently, the DBA will develop into the BDBA. For BDBA, a postulated severe accident is analyzed after melt pool is formed in the lower plenum. Heat transfer behavior in the melt pool as well as two-dimensional heat transfer effect in the lower head wall is discussed. Then, key parameters are chosen to perform parametric analysis. Results show that the safety margin to critical heat flux is significant. After considering two-dimensional heat conduction effect in the lower head, the safety margin could be further increased.     

基于MAAP5程序的秦山核电站严重事故分析

应用MAAP5程序建立了秦山核电站一、二回路，安全系统以及安全壳的模型，并以冷段双端断裂叠加高高、高、低压安注失效，安全壳喷淋系统失效为例，对该严重事故序列进行了模拟计算，给出了瞬态过程一些重要参数随时间的变化规律。结果表明：在72 h内无能动干预手段的条件下，安全壳的完整性可得到保证，相关数据可为秦山核电站严重事故预防和事故缓解措施的制定提供重要参考。     

大破口触发的严重事故分析及缓解措施研究

采用严重事故一体化分析程序MELCOR,对国产先进压水堆核电厂进行系统建模,选取大破口触发的严重事故进行校核计算研究,获得了严重事故工况下核电厂关键参数的瞬态特性和非能动系统响应特性,并与安全分析报告中MAAP的计算结果进行了对比分析。结果表明:虽然校核计算结果与安全分析报告中的结果存在一定差异,但总体上事故序列和主要参数的变化趋势吻合良好,并且都能够在严重事故情况下保持压力容器和安全壳的完整性,放射性裂变产物释放量极低,缓解措施的设计能够有效缓解事故进程,满足核电厂的安全要求。     

Evaluation of pipe whip impacts on neighboring piping and walls of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant

Stress corrosion cracks have been discovered in Group Distribution Headers (GDH) at the Ignalina and Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plants. This increases the probability that a guillotine pipe break can occur that creates a whipping pipe (GDH) with the potential to damage surrounding structures—i.e. adjacent GDH and its attached piping or adjacent reinforced concrete compartment wall. The GDH is the most important component for reactor safety in case of an accident. Emergency Core Cooling System (ECCS) piping is connected to the GDH piping such that, during an accident, coolant passes from the ECSS into the GDH.Presented in this paper is the transient analysis of a Group Distribution Header following a guillotine break at the blind end of the header. Using a very conservative force loading function, the transient response of a whipping RBMK-1500 GDH along with neighboring concrete walls and pipelines is obtained using finite element methodology.The results of the study, assuming that the impacted GDH does not suffer stress corrosion cracking, indicate that the structural integrity of the compartment should be maintained and failure should not propagate from GDH to GDH.     

基于MOOSE框架的五方程两相流分析程序开发

基于多物理场耦合框架MOOSE,采用五方程两相流模型开发了模块化程序ZEBRA,实现了高阶时间、空间离散格式两相流动传热问题的求解。采用Bartolomei开展的垂直圆管过冷沸腾实验对ZEBRA进行验证,在不同热流密度、质量流密度、压力工况下,将程序计算值与实验值进行了数值验证和计算分析。结果表明：ZEBRA中五方程模型预测值与实验值符合良好,沸腾起始点和空泡份额的预测合理,表明ZEBRA初步具备了处理两相流问题的能力。     

Processing dynamic scenarios from a reliability analysis of a nuclear power plant digital instrumentation and control system

This paper illustrates a method for processing accident scenarios generated in a dynamic reliability analysis of a Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) equipped with digital Instrumentation and Control (I&C).The method is based on a Fuzzy C-Means clustering algorithm for classification, which takes into account not only the system states reached at the end of the scenarios but also the timing and magnitude of the occurred failure events, and the characteristics of the process evolution.An illustrative case study is considered, regarding the fault scenarios of the digital I&C of the Lead–Bismuth Eutectic eXperimental Accelerator Driven System (LBE-XADS). A SIMULINK model of the system has been embedded within a Monte Carlo (MC) sampling procedure for injecting faults at random times and of random magnitudes. The accident scenarios thereby generated are classified on the basis of three different system end states, which relate to the value reached by the diathermic oil secondary coolant temperature with respect to maximum and minimum safety threshold values set to avoid primary coolant thermal shocks and degradation of the oil physical and chemical properties.     

Simulation of the small modular reactor severe accident scenario response to SBO using MELCOR code

Advanced small modular reactors (SMRs) use different design in the systems, structures, components from large reactors for achieving a high level of safety and reliability. In present work, the SMRs severe accident caused by the station blackout (SBO) was modeled and analyzed using MELCOR code, and the simulation of the accident scenario response to SBO was conducted. Based on the steady state calculation, which agrees well with designed values, we introduced the SBO accident for transient calculation. First, the case of the SBO accident without the passive core cooling system (PXS) was calculated. The progression and scenario in the reactor pressure vessel (RPV) and the containment were simulated and analyzed, including the transient response, cooling capacity and thermal-hydraulic characteristics and so on. The station black-out transient in the SMR can be simulated accurately, and the main failure model in the accident process can be concluded. Then three other cases of the SBO accident with different passive safety systems (core makeup tank (CMT), accumulator (ACC), passive residual heat removal system heat exchanger (PRHR HX), automatic depressurization system (ADS)) of the PXS were calculated respectively, and the results for different passive safety systems were compared. The passive core cooling system can not only provide water to the primary coolant system, but also take away the reactor decay residual heat. So in a station black-out transient, we can get more time for restoring AC power, and effectively prevent the accidents such as Fukushima.     

Safety analysis of multiple-failure of passive safety systems in SBWR-1200 SBLOCA

The design of the simplified boiling water reactor (SBWR-1200) is characterized by utilizing fully passive safety systems. The emergency core cooling is realized by the gravity driven core cooling system, and the decay heat removal is done by the passive containment cooling system and isolation condenser system. All of the systems have multiple units and could be partially failed. The objective of this paper is to analyze the system response under the multiple malfunctions of passive safety systems in the SBWR-1200.

The chosen accident scenario is a small break loss of coolant accident with one of three gravity driven core cooling system drain lines blocked and one of three passive containment cooling system condensers disabled. An integral test has been carried out in the PUMA facility for 16 h. The facility is designed for low pressure, long term cooling operation with the multiple safety related components; therefore, it has the flexibility to demonstrate the asymmetric or multiple-failure effects with the combination of disability of safety systems. The test initial conditions at 1 MPa (150 psi) are obtained from RELAP5/MOD3.2 code simulation for the SBWR-1200 with appropriate scaling considerations.

Comparisons have been first made between the multiple-failure test and a single-failure test preformed previously. It shows that the core has been covered with liquid coolant during all of accident transient even though there is an apparent coolant inventory reduction in the multiple-failure test. The decay heat removal has no significant difference because the remaining two passive containment cooling condensers increase their cooling capacities, and even the drywell pressure is slightly lower due to the cold water injection from the suppression pool. Comparisons have also been made between the scaled-up test data and the code simulation at the prototypic level. The prototypic simulation is done by RELAP5/MOD3.2. Agreements between the code simulation and the scaled-up test data confirm the code applicability and the facility scalability for this accident scenario.     

水冷包层模块第一壁流动传热特性初步分析

本文基于我国聚变工程实验堆水冷包层优化设计与安全分析的要求,针对水冷包层模块第一壁的流动传热特性进行三维数值模拟研究。采用计算流体力学方法,建立了水冷包层模块第一壁的三维数值模型,研究流量分配的特点以及温度分布情况,分析与评估在稳态工况、瞬态工况及失流事故下的水冷包层模块第一壁传热能力。研究结果表明,不同冷却管间存在流量分配不均匀的现象;在稳态工况下,水冷包层模块第一壁具有较好的传热能力,瞬态工况下水冷包层模块能够有效地导出反应堆热量;失流事故下冷却管内温度短时间上升至系统压力下的饱和温度,有待进一步研究。相关研究为优化包层第一壁传热设计提供参考,并为今后聚变堆的安全分析提供依据。     

福岛条件下AP1000核电厂事故前期研究

假设AP1000核电厂发生类似福岛核事故的初因事件,利用RELAP5/MOD3.3程序对事故早期的一、二回路系统和非能动安全系统进行模拟计算,得到了反应堆冷却剂系统压力、堆芯冷却剂温度、非能动安全系统流量等重要参数的瞬态变化。分析表明：在非能动余热排出系统完好的情况下,反应堆系统能顺利进入热停堆状态;如果非能动余热排出系统1根换热管发生双端断裂,则反应堆系统将会在5 h内发生严重事故。     

Failure Modes and Effects Analysis on ITER DFLL-TBM system

As required for licensing process, accident analyses of International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) accounting for site specifications and design changes will be updated. Chinese Dual-Functional Lithium-Lead-Test Blanket Module (DFLL-TBM) system is a key safety-related component of ITER, its detailed safety analysis, which was designated to demonstrate the integrated technologies of both Helium single coolant (SLL) blanket and Helium-LiPb dual coolant (DLL) blanket, was performed. Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) was applied to perform the safety analysis of DFLL-TBM. This study described the process of FMEA studies on DFLL-TBM system. All safety-related Postulated Initiating Events (PIEs) was identified. And a set of PIEs recommended to be taken into account in the further deterministic transient analyses were defined for both SLL and DLL blanket concepts separately.     

SCWR-FQT回路的冷却剂流量丧失事故研究

超临界水冷堆燃料验证实验（SCWR-FQT）将对1个小型燃料组件在超临界水环境下进行堆内性能测试。为了对该实验回路进行系统设计和安全分析,应用修改过的ATHLET程序建立实验回路计算模型,对两种造成燃料组件实验段冷却剂流量部分或全部丧失的设计基准事故进行模拟分析,即由于装载实验段的压力管内部的导向管破裂导致流经实验段的冷却剂旁通和主冷却剂泵卡轴事故。计算结果显示：实验段冷却剂旁通事故中,燃料包壳温度在事故初期出现约920 ℃的峰值;而主泵卡轴事故中,燃料包壳温度未明显升高。计算结果表明,现有的安全系统设计能保证在事故情况下维持燃料组件实验段的有效冷却。