Preliminary analysis of the post-disassembly expansion phase and structural response under unprotected loss of flow accident in prototype sodium cooled fast reactor

小野田 雄一; 松場 賢一; 飛田 吉春; 鈴木 徹

Mechanical Engineering Journal (Internet), 4(3), p.16-00597_1 - 16-00597_14, 2017/06

http://doi.org/10.1299/mej.16-00597

For the prototype sodium-cooled fast reactor, MONJU, the mechanical energy and structural response under energetics caused by neutronic power excursion during Unprotected Loss of Flow accident (ULOF) were preliminarily analyzed. The objective of this study is to demonstrate the integrity of the reactor vessel against the mechanical load induced by the energetics. Conservative energy production was assumed in order to confirm the robustness of the safety design of MONJU. Mechanical energy was evaluated with the code in which mechanistic modelling of core expansion was implemented. The mechanical energy, which were obtained by analyzing the expanding behavior of core materials after energetics, were about one order of magnitude below the thermodynamic work potential calculated by assuming isentropic expansion of the fuel vapor to one atmosphere, which was often used as an indicator to express the severity of the energetics. Structural integrity was then evaluated with coupled fluid-structure dynamics code using the obtained mechanical energy. No or very small circumferential residual strain of the reactor vessel was evaluated in most analytical cases, and even in the most conservative energy production case, the residual strain was only 0.008 % so that the integrity of the reactor vessel is maintained. The result obtained in the present study shows that MONJU has enough robustness against the mechanical load under energetics.

火災・爆発解析コードシステムP2Aを用いたHTTR水素製造システムにおける可燃性ガスの移流拡散及び爆発に関する感度解析(受託研究)

稲葉 良知; 西原 哲夫

JAERI-Tech 2005-033, 206 Pages, 2005/07

JAERI-Tech-2005-033.pdf:34.71MB

本報告書では、HTTR水素製造システムにおける火災・爆発事故の解析条件を適切に設定できるように、火災・爆発解析コードシステムP2Aを構成する3つの解析コードPHOENICS, AutoReaGas及びAUTODYNを用いて、漏洩ガスの移流拡散及び爆発解析における噴流の影響,ガス爆発解析における障害物,着火点位置及びメッシュサイズの影響、及び漏洩ガスの移流拡散解析における大気安定度の影響を調べた。また、PHOENICSに大気安定度を考慮するための機能追加、及びPHOENICSとAUTODYN間のインターフェイスの改良について述べた。最後に、これらの感度解析の結果を踏まえ、実規模単一反応管試験装置及びHTTR水素製造システム対象とした可燃性流体の漏洩事故解析を2ケース行った。その結果、今回設定した解析条件下では、漏洩した可燃性ガスが爆発しても、安全上重要な建屋への影響はほとんどないことがわかった。