Seismic qualification of crossover piping systems on a sodium-cooled fast reactor with a seismic isolation system

免震装置を適用した高速炉用渡り配管の耐震評価

渡壁 智祥; 奥田 貴大; 岡島 智史 

Watakabe, Tomoyoshi; Okuda, Takahiro; Okajima, Satoshi

高速炉開発においては、三次元免震の適用が計画されている。その場合、原子炉建屋とタービン建屋を繋ぐ渡り配管には、耐震プラントでは発生しない大きな変形が水平、上下方向に作用するため、渡り配管の耐震設計成立性が課題である。加えて、高速炉では、軽水炉と比べて高温熱を取り出すため、主蒸気配管も軽水炉と比べてより高温条件下での運転となることから、高温強度に配慮した設計が必要となる。ここでは、渡り配管レイアウトに対し、日本機械学会設計・建設規格第II編高速炉規格に基づく強度評価を実施し、その結果と過去の破損試験等の最新知見を踏まえ、高速炉用渡り配管の設計評価法を検討した。

A three-dimensional seismic isolation system is planed for application to the conceptual design of a sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR) in Japan. The crossover piping is laid between the nuclear building with the isolation system and the turbine building without the isolation system. A large displacement of the nuclear building with the isolation system is imposed on the crossover piping, which situation is a particular seismic issue because of the isolation system employment. Furthermore, it should be considered that the SFR operates at elevated temperatures compared with light water reactors. In this study, seismic evaluation using an example of a crossover piping layout was performed in accordance with the elevated temperature code of Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers. According to the evaluation results and the up to date technologies such as knowledge obtained from existing dynamic failure tests of piping components, an appropriate seismic evaluation method for the crossover piping was studied.