Internal event level-1 PRA for sodium-cooled fast reactor considering safety measures of defense-in-depth level 1 to 4

深層防護レベル1から4までの対策を考慮したナトリウム冷却高速炉の内的事象レベル1PRA

西野 裕之  ; 栗坂 健一 ; 鳴戸 健一*; 権代 陽嗣; 山本 雅也

Nishino, Hiroyuki; Kurisaka, Kenichi; Naruto, Kenichi*; Gondai, Yoji; Yamamoto, Masaya

シビアアクシデントに対する対策の有効性評価は常陽の再稼働のために必要である。これらの対策は深層防護レベル4の対策を意味する。既往研究では出力運転時のPRAにて深層防護レベル3までの対策の失敗を想定した事故シーケンスの発生頻度の計算、支配的な事故シーケンスグループの同定、重要事故シーケンス選定に必要な支配的な事故シーケンスの同定を行った。この既往研究に基づき、本研究では深層防護レベル4までを考慮し、事故シーケンスがどの程度低減するかを評価した。本研究で構築したイベントツリーを定量化した結果、事故シーケンスグループの発生頻度の合計値は110 /炉年になった。これは深層防護レベル3までの対策を想定した既往研究の結果よりも1/1000倍の発生頻度となった。崩壊熱除去機能喪失がすべての事故シーケンスグループの中で最も支配的であった。

The effectiveness evaluation of safety measures against severe accident is necessary for restart of experimental sodium-cooled fast reactor "Joyo" in Japan. These safety measures correspond to those in defense-in-depth (DiD) level 4. In the previous study, a level-1 probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) at power was performed to calculate frequencies of the accident sequences of failure of safety measures in DiD level 1 to 3, to identify dominant accident sequence groups, and to identify dominant accident sequence for selecting important accident sequences in each accident sequence group which are needed for implementing the effectiveness evaluation of safety measures in DiD level 4. Based on this, the present study implemented level-1 PRA at power to show quantitatively reduction of those occurrence frequency by the safety measure in the DiD level 4. As the result, the frequency of each accident sequence group decreased significantly, and total frequency of the accident sequence groups decreased to about 110 /reactor-year which is about 1/1000 times the one estimated in the previous study. The protected loss of heat sink was the largest contributor in all the accident groups and a dominant accident sequence in each accident group was also identified in this study.