次临界或低功率启动工况下提棒事故分析

由于控制棒抽出引起堆芯内反应性失控增加,从而导致核功率剧增的事故定义为一组控制棒组件抽出事故。这种瞬态可能是反应堆控制系统或棒控系统失灵引起的。多普勒负反应性反馈效应能在保护动作延迟的时间内将功率限制在可接受的水平。该事故中,燃料棒表面可能发生偏离泡核沸腾(departure from nucleate boiling,简称DNB),导致燃料元件包壳烧毁;燃料芯块也可能发生熔化,对包壳产生不利影响。文章对岭澳混合堆芯和提高富集度论证次临界或低功率启动工况下提棒事故进行了分析。分析结果表明,事故瞬态中不会发生燃料芯块熔化或燃料元件包壳烧毁,可以保证燃料元件的完整性,燃料设计满足限制准则。     

Thermal-hydraulic behavior of the NUR nuclear research reactor during a fast loss of flow transient

Nuclear safety analysis remains of crucial importance for both the design and the operation of nuclear reactors. Safety analysis usually entails the simulation of several selected postulated accidents, which can be divided into two main categories, namely reactivity insertion accident (RIA) and loss of flow accident (LOFA). In this paper, thermal-hydraulic simulations of fast LOFA accident were carried out on the new core configuration of the material test research reactor NUR. For this purpose, the nuclear reactor analysis PARET code was used to determine the reactor performance by calculating the reactor power, the reactivity and the temperatures of different components (fuel, clad and coolant) as a function of time. It was observed that during the transient the maximum clad temperature remained well below the critical temperature limit of 110 °C, and the maximum coolant temperature did not exceed the onset of nucleate boiling point of 120 °C. It is concluded that the reactor can be operated at full power level with sufficient safety margins with regard to such kind of transients.     

Reactivity insertion mechanisms in the gas-cooled fast breeder reactor

This report summarizes an analysis of reactivity insertion mechanisms in the gas-cooled fast breeder reactor (GCFR). Inherent reactivity feedback mechanisms are identified and their effects on reactor start-up, during normal operation, and on anticipated and postulated transients are analyzed. Potential sources of accidental reactivity insertions and the resulting transients are investigated, including potential reactivity effects due to cladding and fuel melting. All nuclear calculations are based on the ENDF-B, Version 3, cross-section file. It is concluded from these analyses that the GCFR is an inherently stable reactor during start-up and normal operation. Potential accidental reactivity insertions are mild, and in each case the reactor can be controlled with a substantial margin for fuel melting or cladding damage. In low-probability accident sequences which lead to core melting, there are potential fuel motion mechanisms which can mitigate reactivity effects and accident consequences.     

混合能谱超临界水冷堆反应性引入事故安全分析

本文研究了混合能谱超临界水冷堆(SCWR-M)在发生控制棒失控提升事故和弹棒事故这两类反应性引入事故后的反应堆系统响应。首先利用修改的可用于超临界条件下的系统程序RELAP5对混合能谱超临界水冷堆进行系统建模,并计算分析在功率运行工况下事故过程中功率、流量及包壳温度等重要参数的变化趋势,最后对反应性参数如控制棒价值、控制棒抽出速率和负反馈系数进行了参数效应分析。结果表明,在设计工况下混合能谱超临界水冷堆系统可有效地将衰变热导出堆芯,保证了燃料棒的完整性。另外,反应性参数对控制棒失控提升事故的安全性影响不大,但对弹棒事故的包壳峰值温度影响很大,过于保守的反应性参数估计会使安全裕量大为减小。     

Safety analysis of the reference research reactor MTR during reactivity insertion accident using the code MERSAT

The IAEA’s reference research reactor MTR-10 MW has been modeled using the code MERSAT. The developed MERSAT model consists of detailed representation of primary and secondary loops including reactor pool, bypass, main pump, heat exchanger and reactor core with the corresponding neutronics and thermalhydraulic characteristics. Following the successful accomplishment of the steady state operation at nominal power of 10 MW, reactivity insertion accident (RIA) for three different initial reactivity values of $1.5/0.5 s, $1.35/0.5 s and $0.1/1.0 s have been simulated. The predicted peaks of reactor power, hot channel fuel, clad and coolant temperatures demonstrate inherent safety features of the reference MTR reactor. Only in case of the fast RIA of $1.5/0.5 s, where the peak power of 133.66 MW arrived 0.625 s after the start of the transient, the maximum hot channel clad temperature arrives at the condition of subcooled boiling with the subsequent void formation. However, due to the strong negative reactivity feedback effects of coolant and fuel temperatures the void formation persists for a very short time so that thermalhydraulic conditions remained far from exceeding the safety design limits of thermalhydraulic instability and DNB. Finally, the simulation results show good agreement with previous international benchmark analyses accomplished with other qualified channel and thermalhydraulic system codes.     

Overview of core disruptive accidents

An overview of the analysis of core-disruptive accidents is given. These analyses are for the purpose of understanding and predicting fast reactor behavior in severe low probability accident conditions, to establish the consequences of such conditions and to provide a basis for evaluating consequence limiting design features. The methods used to analyze core-disruptive accidents from initiating event to complete core disruption, the effects of the accident on reactor structures and the resulting radiological consequences are described.     

钠冷快堆熔断式非能动停堆系统方案设计

为保证和增强池式快堆的安全性,通过对比分析现有的非能动停堆装置,基于将某些合金在特定温度下拉伸强度发生突变的特性作为钠冷快堆非能动停堆的触发条件,提出了一种钠冷快堆熔断式非能动停堆系统的设计概念,能在发生无保护超功率事故或无保护失流事故的情况下引入负反应性。针对中国实验快堆(CEFR)的设计完成了熔断式非能动停堆系统的方案设计论证,并利用分析程序DYN4G对这一非能动停堆系统在CEFR无保护事故下的响应情况进行了模拟计算,由此得到了其组件设计的关键参数。分析结果表明,通过合理设计,在发生无保护事故时,熔断式非能动停堆系统能有效降低事故情况下的堆芯燃料组件及冷却剂的温度,进一步提高了钠冷快堆应对严重事故的能力。     

小型铅铋冷却快堆瞬态安全分析

本文基于多通道热工模型与功率计算模型,在快堆分析程序SARAX的基础上开发了可用于分析小型铅铋冷却快堆在无保护超功率事故、无保护失流事故及无保护失热阱事故发生时瞬态安全特性的计算功能,并利用该程序计算了在不同事故情况下,堆芯反应性、功率以及热工参数随时间的变化,分析评价了堆芯的中子学和热工水力学性能。结果表明所设计的堆芯在发生事故时具有固有安全特性。     

Transient Safety Analysis of Small Leaded-Bismuth Cooled Fast Reactor

Based on the multi-channel thermal model and the power model, the calculation code which could be used in the transient safety analysis of fast reactor was developed in unprotected overpower accident, unprotected loss of flow accident and unprotected loss of hot sink accident in the paper. By this code, the core reactivity, power and thermal parameter changes with time in different accident cases were calculated and the core neutronics and thermal-hydraulics performance was analyzed. The results indicate that the core design has safety features when accident happens.     

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。     

Development of a Method for Evaluation of Pin-wise Power Distribution in Fuel Assemblies of Fast Reactors

In the design of fast reactor core with higher burnup and higher linear power, prediction accuracy of burnup history of fuel pin should be upgraded so as to assure fuel integrity without extra design margin under increased neutron fluence and burnup. A method is studied to predict fuel pin-wise power and its burnup history in fast reactors accurately based on an analytic solution of diffusion theory equation on hexagonal geometry with boundary condition from core calculation by finite-differenced diffusion calculation code. The present method is applied to a fast reactor core model, and its accuracy in predicting fuel pin power is tested. The result is compared with the reference solution by the finite difference calculation with very fine mesh. It is found that the present method predicts the power peaking factors in fuel assemblies accurately. The fuel pin-wise nuclide depletion calculation is also done using neutron fluxes for each fuel pin. The result shows that the fuel pin-wise depletion calculation is very important in predicting the burnup history of the fuel assembly in detail.     

兆瓦级热管反应堆堆芯核热特性研究

基于美国MegaPower兆瓦级热管反应堆设计方案,本文利用蒙特卡罗软件OpenMC与有限元分析软件COMSOL开展堆芯核热特性研究。研究表明：堆芯轴向功率分布呈先升高后降低趋势,且下半段功率水平比上半段高。径向功率随径向距离的增大而降低,在靠近径向反射层处出现反弹升高,且这些区域的功率分布明显受转鼓组件的影响。“大小转鼓”的设计方案不利于兆瓦级热管反应堆的反应性控制。边界区域位置热管失效会造成更高程度的基体/燃料温度上升。3根热管失效工况下的燃料棒温升是2根热管失效的32倍。即使3根热管失效的极端事故工况下,堆芯基体及燃料棒峰值温度仍在安全限值内,表明兆瓦级热管反应堆这种固态导热堆芯的优越安全性。     

Analytical study on elimination of severe recriticalities in large scale LMFBRS with enhancement of fuel discharge

The possibility of severe recriticality could be excluded if the molten core materials are discharged from reactor core in the early stage of core disruptive accident (CDA). Based on this idea, several design measures for future commercial liquid metal-cooled fast breeder reactors (LMFBRs) have been proposed to enhance the molten fuel discharge from core in order to prevent formation of the core-wide molten pool with high mobility. One promising concept in these design candidates is modified-FAIDUS (Fuel subassembly with Inner DUct Structure). The event progression in unprotected loss of flow (ULOF) accident in a sodium-cooled large scale FBR with modified-FAIDUS was analyzed to assess the effectual performance of modified-FAIDUS in preventing severe recriticality using the SAS4A and SIMMER-III codes. Two parametric cases were performed covering the uncertainty of duct wall failure mechanism, one with stable fuel crust and another with unstable crust condition. The calculation showed that the final amount of discharged fuel from core in both cases was more than 20% of initial core inventory. The degraded core after fuel discharge is composed of the mixture of solidified fuel, swollen fuel chunks and molten steel, of which low mobility prevents massive fuel motion. The reactor power lowered to decay heat level and the reactivity lowered around −20 $, thus, the possibility of severe recriticality was eliminated.     

Gallium-cooled liquid metallic-fueled fast reactor

We have examined the effects on core characteristics of using two different types of Pu-based metallic alloy fuels in the gallium-cooled fast reactor core. In the proposed concept, the liquid metal fast nuclear reactor uses metallic fuel in the liquid phase and gallium coolant at high temperature (inlet 1700K, outlet 1900K). The liquid fuel is continuously supplied to the reactor during operation at full reactor power. The reactor power is controlled by rotational control drums with absorber material. The aim was to evaluate reactor core neutronics and safety characteristics demonstrating a feasibility of the reactor system. Although gallium has large absorption cross section in the high neutron energy region, we can design the core with rather good neutronics performances. The large negative reactivity feedback induced by the thermal expansion of liquid metallic fuel ensures the core's inherent safety against the unprotected loss-of-flow transient.     

液态熔盐堆运行安全特性初步研究

液态燃料反应堆与固态燃料反应堆相比,原理上有较大不同。液态熔盐堆中由于燃料流动带走缓发中子先驱核在堆外衰变导致堆芯反应性降低,且裂变产物在堆外回路中衰变也会引起一回路发热。本文使用熔盐堆中子动力学程序Cinsf1D探讨2 MW熔盐堆的临界动力学特性和安全特性,研究零功率临界下不同熔盐流速启泵和停泵导致的缓发中子先驱核流失所需改变的控制棒棒位。同时还计算了2 MW恒定功率情况下稳态运行及降低流速时一回路温度分布,并模拟了2 MW额定功率下停泵事件。停泵后由于缓发中子损失减少反应堆功率先缓慢增加,然后迅速降低到接近余热水平。停泵后堆芯温度缓慢增加后稳定在安全值以内,说明熔盐堆具有本征安全性。     

HTR-PM两根一回路连接管断裂的进气事故分析

进气事故是模块式高温气冷堆关注的超设计基准事故之一,石墨氧化腐蚀反应可能导致反射层结构强度减弱、燃料元件完整性和包容裂变产物能力被破坏,以及产生可燃气体等较严重后果。进气事故的分析研究对进一步掌握高温气冷堆的事故特性以及提高反应堆的安全设计具有重要意义。本文基于200MWe球床模块式高温气冷堆示范工程（HTR-PM）的初步设计,假设与一回路压力边界上、下相连的燃料元件进料管和卸料管同时发生断裂,从而形成烟囱效应并导致空气进入堆芯,利用高温气冷堆专用系统分析软件TINTE对自然循环建立及后续的进气腐蚀过程进行了研究,分析了自然循环流量、堆内石墨腐蚀速率、舱室氧气消耗量、燃料元件温度等关键参数的变化。结果表明,即使考虑腐蚀反应的不均匀性,事故后约60h时才会出现首个燃料包覆颗粒裸露现象,燃料元件最高温度峰值低于1620℃的设计限值,保持完好的燃料包覆颗粒仍具有包容放射性裂变产物的能力。同时,如果在相应的时间内采取措施切断进气源,使石墨腐蚀反应不能继续发展,将不会对反应堆的安全造成严重的影响。     

热管冷却双模式空间堆堆芯瞬态安全特性分析

为研究热管冷却双模式空间堆(HP-BSNR)概念设计的可行性和推进模式下堆芯瞬态安全特性,本文基于堆芯结构和稳态程序计算的初始参数分布,建立了堆芯数学物理模型,并开发了适用于HP-BSNR的瞬态安全分析程序TTHA_HPBSNR,计算了HP-BSNR在推进模式下反应性引入和堆芯失流等不同瞬态事故工况下的安全特性,同时分析了反应堆关键参数对HP-BSNR堆芯瞬态安全特性的影响。结果表明,由于堆芯固有负反馈机制的作用,发生反应性引入事故时,堆芯功率最终达到一新的稳定值,且燃料最高温度并未超出安全限值。而发生失流事故时,反应堆能实现自动停堆,且负反馈系数的大小决定了自动停堆的响应时间。相较于反应性引入事故,失流事故对HP-BSNR的安全运行威胁更大。     

小型移动式铅铋堆运输过程堆芯进水事故工况下临界安全问题研究

小型移动式铅铋堆由于在海岛、偏远地区等场景的应用需要,整堆运输的安全可行性成为必要设计目标之一。基于小型移动式铅铋堆自身特点,采用谱移吸收材料的反应性控制手段进行反应性控制方案研究,以确保整堆运输的临界安全。利用MCNP软件计算在运输过程、堆芯进水事故工况下表面涂覆不同厚度Gd2O3涂层的燃料芯块的有效增殖系数（keff）,其中涂层厚度为50μm时满足临界安全要求;分析加入谱移吸收材料后堆芯的燃耗特性、功率分布和传热,验证表明其不影响堆芯正常运行,确定了此种反应性控制方案的可行性。     

超长寿命小型自然循环铅铋快堆堆芯概念设计研究

以提高铅铋快堆的经济性与固有安全性为目标,开展100 MWt超长寿命小型自然循环铅铋快堆SPALLER-100概念设计,在选用PuN-ThN燃料和²⁰⁸Pb-Bi冷却剂的基础上,提出了一种添加固体慢化剂BeO的燃料组件设计方案,开展了堆芯布置研究和控制棒系统设计,分析了堆芯物理特性与稳态自然循环特性。结果表明：在低燃料装载量和小堆芯体积条件下,SPALLER-100堆芯换料周期达32 a,平均卸料燃耗高达210.38 MW·d/kg(HM),整个寿期内的反应性系数均为负值。稳态运行工况下燃料包壳、芯块最大温度均小于安全限值,反应堆具备一回路自然循环能力和一定流量自动分配能力。     

Safety analysis for an inadvertent control rod withdrawal event during a power operation of an advanced integral reactor

To identify a safety margin in the case of an inadvertent control rod withdrawal event of a 65-MW_t advanced integral reactor, safety analysis has been carried out by using the Transients And Setpoint Simulation/System integrated Modular Reactor (TASS/SMR) code. The diverse initial conditions, various reactivity insertion rates into a core, different combinations of a reactivity feedback and three different speed modes of a main coolant pump (MCP) have been considered to identify the effect of each parameter on a critical heat flux ratio (CHFR) and the initial condition resulting in the worst consequences from the viewpoint of the minimum critical heat flux ratio. The analysis results show that the worst consequences occur when a reactivity of 17.61 pcm/s is inserted into a core at an initial condition of a 45% initial core power, high coolant temperature at the core inlet position, low system pressure and a thermal design flow. It is also assumed that the least negative fuel and moderator temperature coefficients are applied. The safety parameters such as the minimum critical heat flux ratio and the system pressure are maintained within the safety limits and the reactor is safely transferred to a safe condition by a functioning of the safety systems of the advanced integral reactor.