• Title of article

    ApplicationofanoptimizedAMprocedurefollowingaSBOinaVVER-1000OriginalResearchArticle

  • Author/Authors

    MarcoCherubini، نويسنده , , NikolausMuellner، نويسنده , , FrancescoD’Auria، نويسنده , , GianniPetrangeli، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2008
  • Pages
    7
  • From page
    74
  • To page
    80
  • Abstract
    TheUniversityofPisawasinvolvedininvestigationsofanAccidentManagement(AM)procedurebasedonpassivefeedwaterinjection.Someexperimentswereperformedtovalidatethispossibility(e.g.inLOBIandBethsyfacilities)andfullyanalyzedbythermalhydraulicsystemcodes.RecentactivitiesinwhichtheUniversityofPisaisengaged(alsoasleader)arefocusedonVVER-1000safetyanalyses.TheideaisnowtousetheacquiredknowledgetoexploreifaprocedurebasedonpassivefeedwaterinjectionisapplicableandcanprovideanybenefitstotheRussiandesignpressurisedplant. Thepostulatedaccidentisastationblackout,insuchawayonlypassivesystemsareavailable.TheproposedAMisbasedonsecondaryandprimarysidedepressurisationinsequence.ThesecondarysidedepressurisationperformedbytheBRU-AvalveshasthescopetofeedpassivelytheSGswiththewaterleftinthefeedwaterlinesandinthedeaerators.Theprimarysidedepressurisation,viathePORV,isforeseentokeeptheplantatthelowestpressure(toreducetheenergyofthesystem)andtomaximizethe“gracetime”oftheplant.Threecasesarehereconsidered:nooperatoraction,applicationoftheoptimizedAMsequence,applicationoftheAMprocedureatthelasttimewhenitiseffective. TheintentionofthispaperistoshowthatincaseofanunlikelyeventsuchaSBOtheimplementationofastrategybasedonsystemsnotdesignedforspecificsafetyapplicationcanhavealargeimpactonthe“gracetime”oftheplant.
  • Journal title
    Nuclear Engineering and Design Eslah
  • Serial Year
    2008
  • Journal title
    Nuclear Engineering and Design Eslah
  • Record number

    894981