もんじゅ燃料体取出し作業報告書; 第1段階「燃料体取出し」作業

Fuel unloading work in decommissioning of the prototype fast breeder reactor Monju; First stage of Monju decommissioning project

塩田 祐揮; 工藤 淳貴; 津野 大海 ; 竹内 遼太郎; 有吉 秀夫 ; 塩濱 保貴; 浜野 知治; 高木 剛彦 ; 長沖 吉弘 

Shiota, Yuki; Kudo, Junki; Tsuno, Hiromi; Takeuchi, Ryotaro; Ariyoshi, Hideo; Shiohama, Yasutaka; Hamano, Tomoharu; Takagi, Tsuyohiko; Nagaoki, Yoshihiro

高速増殖原型炉もんじゅは、2018年から廃止措置に移行し、約30年を経て廃止措置を完了する予定である。なお、廃止措置は4段階に分けて実施する計画である。もんじゅは、原子炉容器及び炉外燃料貯蔵槽(EVST)に多量のナトリウムを保有し、大規模なナトリウム火災との重畳による燃料破損という残留リスクがあった。このため、もんじゅ廃止措置計画の第1段階では約5.5年をかけて「燃料体取出し」作業を実施し、速やかにこれらの燃料体を全て燃料池に貯蔵し残留リスクを排除することとした。燃料体取出し作業では、炉心の燃料体を燃料池に移送し貯蔵することを目的に、炉外燃料貯蔵槽に貯蔵中の燃料体を洗浄し、燃料池に貯蔵する「燃料体の処理」、炉心にある燃料体を模擬燃料体等と交換し、炉外燃料貯蔵槽に貯蔵する「燃料体の取出し」を交互に行い、4キャンペーンに分け炉心に存在する燃料体370体と炉外燃料貯蔵槽に貯蔵されている燃料体160体の計530体の燃料体を全て安全かつ計画通りに燃料池への貯蔵を完了した。本報告書は、第1段階での燃料体取出し作業の総括として、作業の進め方、事前の機器・設備点検やリスク評価といった作業前の準備、キャンペーン内での運転や点検等の作業の実績、作業の評価について取り纏めたものである。

In the first stage of Monju decommissioning project, fuel unload work began to be carried out. There are two tasks in this work. One is Fuel Treatment and Storage work that gets rid of sodium on the fuel assemblies unloaded from Ex-Vessel fuel Storage Tank (EVST) and carries it in the storage pool, and the other is Fuel Unloading that the fuel assemblies in the reactor core is replaced with dummy fuels and stored in EVST. Fuel Treatment and Storage work and Fuel Unloading work are performed alternately, and 370 fuel assemblies in the core and 160 fuel assemblies in EVST are all carried to the storage pool. Monju had a large amount of sodium in the reactor vessel and EVST, and there was a residual risk of fuel failure due to the superposition of a large scale sodium fire. Therefore, in the first stage of the Monju decommissioning project, it was decided to take about 5.5 years to remove the residual risk by storing all the fuel rods in the fuel storage pool. There are few Fuel handling system of Sodium Fast Reactor in the world, so the driving record and experience are not enough. So, events that occur even if taken measure are assumed. The following three events apply to this; first, events that are difficult to prevent, events. Second, that are due to lack of experience, and final, events optimization of system is not enough. Plans were taken to suppress these events. This report summarizes the "Monju decommissioning project" work conducted so far in all four campaigns.