Development of prototype reactor maintenance, 2; Application to piping support of sodium-cooled reactor prototype

研究開発段階炉の保全の開発,2; 配管支持構造物への適用

荒井 眞伸 ; 桾木 孝介; 相澤 康介 ; 近澤 佳隆  ; 高屋 茂  ; 久保 重信 ; 小竹 庄司*; 伊藤 隆哉*; 山口 彰*

Arai, Masanobu; Kunogi, Kosuke; Aizawa, Kosuke; Chikazawa, Yoshitaka; Takaya, Shigeru; Kubo, Shigenobu; Kotake, Shoji*; Ito, Takaya*; Yamaguchi, Akira*

研究開発段階炉の保全の適用先としてもんじゅの配管支持構造物を検討した。配管支持構造物の寿命はプラント寿命より長いことは試験的に確認されている。初期段階としてアクセス可能な支持構造物について目視検査が考えられるが、高速炉の特徴として配管熱膨張が大きいため、最終的には配管変位監視による支持構造物の健全性監視が可能になると考えられ、その場合は、目視検査は代表部位のみに限定できると考えられる。

Applications for maintenance program on piping support of prototype fast breeder reactor Monju are studied. Based on degradation mechanism, snubbers in Monju primary cooling system showed lifetime more than the plant lifetime of 30 years by experiments conservatively. For the first step during construction, visual inspection on accessible all supports could be available. In that visual inspection, mounting conditions and damages of all accessible supports could be monitored. One of major features of the Monju primary piping system is large thermal expansion due to large temperature difference between maintenance and operation conditions. Thanks to that large thermal expansion, integrity of the piping support could be monitored by measuring piping displacement. When technologies of piping displacement monitoring are matured in Monju, visual inspection on piping support could be shifted to piping displacement monitoring. At that stage, the visual inspection could be limited only on representative supports.