COCOSYS: Status of development and validation of the German containment code system

For the simulation of severe accident propagation in containments of nuclear power plants it is necessary to assess the efficiency of severe accident measures under conditions as realistic as possible. Therefore the German containment code system COCOSYS is under development and validation at GRS. The main objective is to provide a code system on the basis of mostly mechanistic models for the comprehensive simulation of all relevant processes and plant states during severe accidents in the containment of light water reactors covering the design basis accidents, too. COCOSYS is being used for the identification of possible deficits in plant safety, qualification of the safety reserves of the entire system, assessment of damage-limiting or mitigating accident management measures, support of integral codes in PSA level 2 studies and safety evaluation of new plants.COCOSYS is composed of three main modules, which are separate executable files. These modules are covering thermal hydraulics including hydrogen combustion, fission products mainly aerosols and iodine behaviour, and corium behaviour with molten corium concrete interaction. The communication between these modules is realized via PVM (parallel virtual machine).COCOSYS is subject to an ongoing internal and external validation process. At present this validation process is mainly based on tests being performed in the German ThAI facility. Experiments to be performed in ThAI dealing with hydrogen combustion, recombiner behaviour and aerosol and iodine issues are currently subject of the just started OECD-THAI project. Examples given for the successful validation are the participation in the OECD/NEA ISP-47 and the benchmark for the CCI-2 test in the frame of the OECD-MCCI project.For example COCOSYS has been used in licensing procedure performed for the installation of catalytic recombiners in German nuclear power plants. At present COCOSYS is in use for the licensing process of the new Finnish EPR plant on the industrial side.Improvements and model extensions like pyrolysis processes, direct containment heating and the combined use with CFD models are just ongoing.     

压水堆核电站严重事故紧凑型仿真机开发

为了缓解压水堆核电站可能发生的严重事故的后果,也为了满足安全分析工程师和概率风险评价人员的需求,并在与国际原子能机构合作框架协议内,研制开发了紧凑型的严重事故仿真分析机MELSIM－PC。该仿真系统主要由仿真核心程序、同步通讯程序、人机界面程序等几个部分组成,可以工作在一台普通的微型计算机上,成功地实现MELCOR程序变量的运行数据库管理、电站动态图形显示、仿真计算控制、再启动和仿真重演等重要功能。     

Development of Severe Accident Analysis Code SAMPSON in IMPACT Project

IMPACT is the name of a program and of specific simulation software, which will perform full-scope and detailed calculations of various phenomena in a nuclear power plant for a wide range of event scenarios. The four years of the IMPACT project Phase 1 have been completed, and each analysis module of the prototype version of the severe accident analysis code SAMPSON has been developed and verified by comparison with separate-effect test data. Verification of the integrated code with combinations of up to 11 analysis modules has been conducted, with the Analysis Control Module, to demonstrate the code capability and integrity. A 10-inch cold leg failure Loss of Coolant Accident in the Surry Plant was the assumed initiating event. The system analysis was divided into two cases; one was an in-vessel retention analysis when gap cooling was effective, the other was an analysis of phenomena when the event was extended to ex-vessel due to the reactor pressure vessel failure when gap cooling was not sufficient. Using the Analysis Control Module to select and execute adequate combinations of the various analysis modules dynamically according to the progression of plant phenomena and to control parallel processing, the goal of integrated calculations by SAMPSON with multiple analysis modules executing in parallel was achieved.     

我国核应急决策支持系统研究开发和现状与展望

国家核应急决策支持系统是以欧洲核应变决策支持系统为技术平台、结合我国核电站的环境特征建立的我国自己的核应急决策支持系统。这个系统可以在发生核事故的情况下,借助于评价模型和有关的环境监测信息,对放射性释放给环境和公众可能产生的风险作出分析和预测,成为决策者确定科学合理的应急防护行为的技术支持工具。本文介绍我国核应急决策支持系统研究与开发工作的组织、进展情况以及今后的应用展望。     

Development of a risk-informed accident diagnosis and prognosis system to support severe accident management

RISARD, risk-informed severe accident risk diagnosis system, is a computerized tool developed to improve a severe accident management (SAM) for a nuclear power plant and to effectively support the MCR and the TSC in executing the relevant SAM activities. In order to provide a diagnostic capability to a state of the plant and a prognostic capability for an anticipated accident progression, the system examines (a) a symptom-based diagnosis of a plant damage state (PDS) sequence in a risk-informing way and (b) a PDS sequence-based prognosis of key plant parameter behavior, through a prepared database (DB) containing plant-specific severe accident risk (SAR)-related information. For a given accident, the replicated use of these two processes makes it possible to obtain information about the functional states of the plant and containment safety systems expected at the time of a severe accident as well as future trend of the key plant parameters that are essentially required for taking the relevant SAM action, eventually leading to an answer about the best strategy for SAM. The foregoing concept for an accident diagnosis and prognosis can give the SAM practitioners more time to take action for mitigating the consequences of the potential accident scenarios since they are made in a simple, fast, and efficient way through a prepared SAR database and it is useful especially when the plant information available for SAM is incomplete and limited. The main purpose of this paper is to (a) introduce the concept of the RISARD system proposed to support SAM and its implementation through a prepared OPR1000 plant- and MAAP code-specific SAR database and (b) assess prediction capabilities of major events expected during the evolution of a severe accident through the system.     

决策支持系统的发展与核事故应急决策

决策支持系统是指根据事先建立的判定原则或模拟模型，在各种实际情形下为决策提供支持或最佳答案的计算机实时系统。核事故应急决策支持系统是将决策支持系统引入核事故应急防护措施决策工作中的产物。本文通过介绍决策支持系统的概念及其发展概况，以及国内外核事故应急决策支持系统，特别是RODOS的发展现状，讨论核事故应急决策支持系统今后发展可能存在的问题以及发展方向。     

A framework for nuclear power plant emergency response system

<正>The purpose of this study is to establish an intelligent expert system for nuclear power plant emergency response.A new framework of environmental risk management methodology by the concept of pattern recognition was introduced in this paper.A knowledge-based decision support system for emergency response and risk management of nuclear power plant was also discussed.The mathematical pattern relationship of accidental release effects on neighboring area and the corresponding response measures were presented in this paper.With this decision system,the decision maker can specify the procedure and minimize their human error in the decision process.The improvement of risk response and the quality of management system could be upgraded by this system.Besides,the methodology can also be served as a basis for the future development of environmental risk response system design.     

Development of severe accident management advisory and training simulator (SAMAT)

The most operator support systems including the training simulator have been developed to assist the operator and they cover from normal operation to emergency operation. For the severe accident, the overall architecture for severe accident management is being developed in some developed countries according to the development of severe accident management guidelines which are the skeleton of severe accident management architecture. In Korea, the severe accident management guideline for KSNP was recently developed and it is expected to be a central axis of logical flow for severe accident management. There are a lot of uncertainties in the severe accident phenomena and scenarios and one of the major issues for developing a operator support system for a severe accident is the reduction of these uncertainties. In this paper, the severe accident management advisory system with training simulator, SAMAT, is developed as all available information for a severe accident are re-organized and provided to the management staff in order to reduce the uncertainties. The developed system includes the graphical display for plant and equipment status, the previous research results by knowledge-base technique, and the expected plant behavior using the severe accident training simulator. The plant model used in this paper is oriented to severe accident phenomena and thus can simulate the plant behavior for a severe accident. Therefore, the developed system may make a central role of the information source for decision-making for a severe accident management, and will be used as the training simulator for severe accident management.     

Overview of plant specific severe accident management strategies for Kozloduy nuclear power plant,WWER-1000/320

This paper focuses on the fourth level of the defence in depth concept in nuclear safety, including the transitions from the third level and into the fifth level. The use of the severe accident management guideline (SAMG) is required when an accident situation is not handled adequately through the use of emergency operating procedures (EOP), thus leading to a partial or a total core melt. In the EOPs, the priority is to save the fuel, whereas, in the SAMG, the priority is to save the containment. Actions recommended in the SAMG aim at limiting the risk of radiologically significant radioactive releases in the short- and mid-term (a few hours to a few days). The paper describes basic severe accident management requirements related to nuclear power plant (NPP), specified by the IAEA and in Republic of Bulgaria Nuclear Legislation. It also surveys plant specific severe accident management (SAM) strategies for the Kozloduy NPP, equipped with WWER-1000 type reactors.     

二级PSA在严重事故管理中的应用研究

Level 2 Probabilistic Safety Analysis (PSA) can be used to quantitatively assess the risk of severe accident and is a good tool to evaluate the severe accident management. By studying the general method and procedure for the application of level 2 PSA in severe accident management, taking an improved generation-Ⅱnuclear power plant as an example, the “primary loop depressurization operation ” and the “ primary loop emergency water injection” in severe accident management guideline are quantitatively evaluated. Analysis shows that performing the “primary loop depressurization operation” immediately after entering the severe accident management guideline can greatly reduce the risk of large radioactive release, and performing “primary loop emergency water injection operation” contributes greatly to reducing the risk of large radioactive release in the slower accident sequence. The study shows that there still has further improvement room in severe accidents management for nuclear power plants in China.     

Use of a fuzzy decision-making method in evaluating severe accident management strategies

In developing severe accident management strategies, an engineering decision would be made based on the available data and information that are vague, imprecise and uncertain by nature. These sorts of vagueness and uncertainty are due to lack of knowledge for the severe accident sequences of interest. The fuzzy set theory offers a possibility of handling these sorts of data and information. In this paper, the possibility to apply the decision-making method based on fuzzy set theory to the evaluation of the accident management strategies at a nuclear power plant is scrutinized. The fuzzy decision-making method uses linguistic variables and fuzzy numbers to represent the decision-maker's subjective assessments for the decision alternatives according to the decision criteria. The fuzzy mean operator is used to aggregate the decision-maker's subjective assessments, while the total integral value method is used to rank the decision alternatives. As a case study, the proposed method is applied to evaluating the accident management strategies at a nuclear power plant.     

二级PSA在严重事故管理中的应用研究

二级概率安全分析(PSA)可用来定量评估严重事故风险,是评价严重事故管理的良好工具。通过研究二级PSA应用于严重事故管理的一般方法与流程,以某二代改进型核电厂二级PSA模型为例,对严重事故管理导则中"一回路卸压"和"一回路应急注水"两个关键操作进行了定量评价。评价表明进入严重事故管理导则后立即执行"一回路卸压操作"可大幅度降低大量放射性释放风险,执行"一回路应急注水操作"对于降低进程较慢的事故序列大量放射性释放风险贡献较大。研究表明国内核电厂针对严重事故的管理还有进一步提升空间。。     

NOSA五星安全管理系统对核电站职业安全管理的作用

核电站的职业安全管理正在向综合一体化管理、风险预控管理、过程管理、全方位和全员参与管理的方向发展。适当的集核电站安全、健康、环保为一体的综合管理方法,使其与核安全运行管理体系有机结合,共同为构建良好的核安全文化提供坚实的框架。NOSA五星安全管理系统就是这样一种基于风险管理的安全、健康和环保的综合管理系统,目标是保障人身安全。NOSA的管理理念与核安全文化理念相一致且可操作性强,符合核电站职业安全管理的需要。采用NOSA五星安全管理系统并使其保持持续改进,是提高核电站职业安全管理水平的有效途径之一,它能够和核安全运行管理体系及持续改进的安全文化有机结合,在提高核电站安全性和改善经济性方面发挥重要作用。     

Development and application of a dual RELAP5-3D-based engineering simulator for ABWR

For any innovated plant design, the designed paper plant can be converted into a computer as a digital plant with advanced simulation techniques before being constructed into a real plant. A digital plant, namely engineering simulator, can be applied for: (1) verification of system design and system integration, (2) power test simulation, (3) plant transient and accident analyses, (4) plant abnormal and emergency procedure development and verification, (5) design change verification and analysis, etc. An advanced engineering simulator was successfully developed for the LungMen advanced boiling water reactor (ABWR) plant to support various applications before and after commercial operation. This plant specific engineering simulator was developed based on two separate RELAP5-3D modules synchronized on a commercial simulation platform, namely 3-Key Master. On this advanced LungMen plant simulation (ALPS) platform, major plant dynamics were simulated by two separate RELAP5-3D modules, one for reactor system modeling and the other for balance of plant (BOP) system modeling. Moreover, major control systems as well as emergency core cooling system (ECCS) were all simulated in great detail with built-in tasks of this commercial simulation platform. Different from real time calculation on training simulator, precision of engineering calculation is intentionally kept by synchronizing modules based on the most time-consuming one. During synchronization, each module will check its’ own converge criteria in each small time advancement. This plant specific advanced ABWR engineering simulator has been successfully applied on: (1) licensing blowdown analysis of feed water line break (FWLB) for containment design; (2) phenomena investigation of low-pressure ECC injection bypass during FWLB; (3) analysis of FW pump performance during power ascending; (4) verification of plant vendor's pre-test calculations of each start-up test.     

Current status and technical description of Chinese 2 × 250 MWth HTR-PM demonstration plant

After the nuclear accidents of Three Mile Island and Chernobyl the world nuclear community made great efforts to increase research on nuclear reactors and to develop advanced nuclear power plants with much improved safety features. Following the successful construction and a most gratifying operation of the 10 MW_th high-temperature gas-cooled test reactor (HTR-10), the Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology (INET) of Tsinghua University has developed and designed an HTR demonstration plant, called the HTR-PM (high-temperature-reactor pebble-bed module). The design, having jointly been carried out with industry partners from China and in collaboration of experts worldwide, closely follows the design principles of the HTR-10.Due to intensive engineering and R&D efforts since 2001, the basic design of the HTR-PM has been finished while all main technical features have been fixed. A Preliminary Safety Analysis Report (PSAR) has been compiled.The HTR-PM plant will consist of two nuclear steam supply system (NSSS), so called modules, each one comprising of a single zone 250 MW_th pebble-bed modular reactor and a steam generator. The two NSSS modules feed one steam turbine and generate an electric power of 210 MW.A pilot fuel production line will be built to fabricate 300,000 pebble fuel elements per year. This line is closely based on the technology of the HTR-10 fuel production line.The main goals of the project are two-fold. Firstly, the economic competitiveness of commercial HTR-PM plants shall be demonstrated. Secondly, it shall be shown that HTR-PM plants do not need accident management procedures and will not require any need for offsite emergency measures.According to the current schedule of the project the completion date of the demonstration plant will be around 2013. The reactor site has been evaluated and approved; the procurement of long-lead components has already been started.After the successful operation of the demonstration plant, commercial HTR-PM plants are expected to be built at the same site. These plants will comprise many NSSS modules and, correspondingly, a larger turbine.     

RODOS 4.0与RODOS的未来发展

2000年初，欧洲核应急决策支持系统研究项目开发出了系统与评价软件RODOS4．0，这是一个重要的里程碑，标志着RODOS系统已经从研究开发进入了运行应用的阶段。本文主要介绍了RODOS4．0的系统结构与模块，包括RODOS PV4．0（示范版）和RODOS PRTY4．0（原型版）两个版本，同时介绍有关的独立软件程序。最后，简要介绍了RODOS系统的安装运行情况以及RODOS系统的未来发展计划。目前，我国正以RODOS作为平台开发我国自己的国家核应急决策支持系统，了解RODOS4．0的技术现状与RODOS系统的未来发展计划，对于我国核应急决策支持系统的研究开发工作是非常有益的。     

核电厂严重事故情况下氢气控制分析

文章首先阐述了核电厂严重事故情况下安全壳内的氢气风险,研究现状,以及缓解、控制氢气风险的具体措施.在此基础上,介绍了田湾核电站严重事故情况下氢气控制的系统和方法,调试结果及历次大修对氢气控制系统的检查结果,表明该方法具备严重事故预防和缓解能力,安全风险处于受控状态,安全是有保障的,符合国家核安全局针对福岛核事故后对核电厂改进行动的通用技术要求.     

An extended value-impact approach for nuclear regulatory decision making

This paper presents an extended value-impact methodology which aids decision makers in ranking various alternative actions for reducing the risk associated with nuclear power reactors. It extends the state-of-the-art value-impact methodology by using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), a formalized decision making tool for ranking alternatives based on judgment. The AHP reduces some of the limitations present in current value-impact work, such as the inability to include subjective factors in a structured approach, as well as controversial questions such as the importance of onsite versus offsite accident costs averted, uncertainty, and impact of public opinion.In the paper, the method is applied to include a value-impact study of the implementation of either a vented-containment system or an alternative decay heat removal system as a means for reducing risk at the Grand Gulf nuclear power plant. The results of this analysis show that the method provides considerable insight to the solution of topics of interest in the decision making area of nuclear power risk management.     

全厂断电引发的严重事故下蒸汽发生器传热管蠕变失效风险研究

全厂断电引发的严重事故若处置不当,可能发展为长期、高压的严重事故进程,此时堆芯冷却系统中的自然循环在导出部分堆芯余热的同时,也增加了蒸汽发生器（SG）传热管、稳压器波动管以及热管段出现蠕变失效的风险。本文基于两环路设计的秦山二期核电厂设计特点,结合蠕变失效风险模型,对全厂断电引发的严重事故后未能执行“严重事故管理导则中向蒸汽发生器注水（SAG-1）”时SG传热管的蠕变失效风险进行了研究,从而为全厂断电引发的严重事故的负面影响提供量化结果,为技术支持中心（TSC）最终决策提供参考依据。分析结果表明,全厂断电引发的严重事故后16 361 s可能出现蠕变失效;自事故后16 610 s,SG传热管出现蠕变失效的可能性均远低于稳压器波动管与热管段,秦山二期核电厂全厂断电引发的严重事故下因SG传热管蠕变失效而导致安全壳旁通的风险很小。     

Uncertainty analysis of CsI distribution for typical CANDU6 station blackout accident

This paper illustrates an application of a severe accident analysis code, ISAAC (Integrated Severe Accident Analysis Code for the CANDU plants), to the uncertainty analysis of fission product behaviors during a severe reactor accident. The ISAAC code is a system-level computer code capable of performing integral analyses of potential severe accident progressions in nuclear power plants, and whose main purpose is to support a level 2 probabilistic safety assessment or severe accident management strategy developments. The code employs lots of user options for supporting sensitivity and uncertainty analyses. The present application is mainly focused on determining an estimate of the fission products in the release and transport processes and the relative importance of the dominant contributors to the predicted fission products. The key modeling parameters and phenomenological models employed for the present uncertainty analysis are closely related to the fission product release correlations, vapor–aerosol equilibrium, vapor–surface equilibrium for a revaporization calculation, and aerosol decontamination factors. A typical CANDU6 type plant, the Wolsong nuclear power plant, was used as a reference plant for the analysis.