Containment Depressurization Capabilities of Filtered Venting System in 1000 MWe PWR with Large Dry Containment
| Autor: | Sang-Won Lee, Tae-Hyub Hong, Yu-Jung Choi, Mi-Ro Seo, Hyeong-Taek Kim |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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| Zdroj: | Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations, Vol 2014 (2014) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 1687-6075 1687-6083 |
| DOI: | 10.1155/2014/841895 |
| Popis: | After the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident, the Korean government and nuclear industries performed comprehensive safety inspections on all domestic nuclear power plants against beyond design bases events. As a result, a total of 50 recommendations were defined as safety improvement action items. One of them is installation of a containment filtered venting system (CFVS) or portable backup containment spray system. In this paper, the applicability of CFVS is examined for OPR1000, a 1000 MWe PWR with large dry containment in Korea. Thermohydraulic analysis results show that a filtered discharge flow rate of 15 [kg/s] at 0.9 [MPa] is sufficient to depressurize the containment against representative containment overpressurization scenarios. Radiological release to the environment is reduced to 10-3 considering the decontamination factor. Also, this cyclic venting strategy reduces noble gas release by 50% for 7 days. The probability of maintaining the containment integrity in level 2 probabilistic safety assessment (PSA) initiating events is improved twofold, from 43% to 87%. So, the CFVS can further improve the containment integrity in severe accident conditions. |
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