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Uematsu, Mari Mariannu; Pr
le, G.*; Mariteau, P.*; Sauvage, J.-F.*; Hayafune, Hiroki; Chikazawa, Yoshitaka
Proceedings of 2012 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP '12) (CD-ROM), p.836 - 849, 2012/06
EDF and JAEA have signed a bilateral agreement for research and development cooperation and information exchange on future sodium-cooled fast reactors (SFR) since 2008. Within the bilateral framework, a comparison of Japan Sodium-cooled Fast Reactor (JSFR) design with future French SFR concept has been done based on the requirement of EDF, the investor-operator of future French SFR, and the French safety baseline, under the framework of EDF-JAEA bilateral agreement of research and development cooperation on future SFR. The specific designs of JSFR were evaluated as interesting from EDF point of view. The comparison work pointed out the differences in safety baselines between two countries as well.
Yamano, Hidemasa; Kubo, Shigenobu; Tani, Akihiro*; Nishino, Hiroyuki; Sakai, Takaaki
Proceedings of 2012 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP '12) (CD-ROM), p.813 - 825, 2012/06
This paper describes a safety design approach for external events in the design study of Japan Sodium-cooled Fast Reactor, in parallel to the approach for internal events which is conformed to the defence-in-depth principle in IAEA. An emphasis is the addition of new eventcategory that has to be considered in design, i.e., introduction of "design extension condition (DEC)." In this study, the DEC category was extended to the external events. In addition to seismic design, other external events such as tsunami, strong wind and abnormal temperature were addressed in this study. From a wide variety of external events consisting of natural hazards and human-induced ones, a screening method was developed in terms of sitting, consequence, frequency to select representative events. Design approaches for these events were categorized on the probabilistic, statistical and deterministic basis.
Chikazawa, Yoshitaka; Enuma, Yasuhiro; Kisohara, Naoyuki; Yamano, Hidemasa; Kubo, Shigenobu; Hayafune, Hiroki; Sagawa, Hiroshi*; Okamura, Shigeki*; Shimakawa, Yoshio*
Proceedings of 2012 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP '12) (CD-ROM), p.677 - 686, 2012/06
Evaluation of Earthquake and Tsunami on JSFR has been analyzed. For seismic design, safety components are confirmed to maintain their functions even against recent strong Earthquakes. As for Tsunami, some parts of reactor building might be submerged including component cooling water system whose final heat sink is sea water. However, in the JSFR design, safety grade components are independent from component cooling water system (CCWS). The JSFR emergency power supply adopts a gas turbine system with air cooling, since JSFR does not basically require quick start-up of the emergency power supply thanks to the natural convection DHRS. Even in case of long station blackout, the DHRS could be activated by emergency batteries or manually and be operated continuously by natural convection.
Goto, Minoru; Seki, Yasuyoshi; Inaba, Yoshitomo; Ohashi, Hirofumi; Sato, Hiroyuki; Fukaya, Yuji; Tachibana, Yukio
Proceedings of 2012 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP '12) (CD-ROM), p.341 - 348, 2012/06
Japan Atomic Energy Agency has started a conceptual design of a small-sized HTGR with 50 MW thermal power (HTR50S), which is a first-of-a-kind commercial or demonstration plant of a small-sized HTGR to be deployed in developing countries in the 2020s. The nuclear of the HTR50S was performed by upgrading the proven technology of High Temperature Engineering Test Reactor (HTTR) to reduce cost for the construction. In the nuclear design, reduce the number of fuel enrichment comparing with the HTTR is one of the important subject to be upgraded. The optimization of the power distribution in the core, which is required to suppress the maximum fuel temperature below the limitation, was completed successfully by using only three fuel enrichment and the number of fuel enrichment was reduced significantly compared with the HTTR.
Aizawa, Kosuke; Chikazawa, Yoshitaka; Ishikawa, Nobuyuki; Kubo, Shigenobu; Okazaki, Hitoshi*; Mito, Makoto*; Tozawa, Katsuhiro*; Hayashi, Masateru*
Proceedings of 2012 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP '12) (CD-ROM), p.465 - 474, 2012/06
A conceptual design study of an advanced sodium-cooled fast reactor JSFR has progressed in the "Fast Reactor Cycle Technology Development (FaCT)" project in Japan. JSFR has two failed fuel detection systems in the core. One is a failed fuel detection (FFD) system which continuously monitors a fission product from failed fuel subassembly. The other is a failed fuel detection and location (FFDL) system which locates when it receives signals from FFD. In this study, requirements to the FFD-DN and the FFD-DN design to meet the requirements were investigated for the commercial and demonstration JSFR. For the FFDL systems, experiences in the previous fast reactors and the research and development of FFDL system for JSFR were investigated. Operation experiences of the Selector-valve FFDL system were accumulated in PFR and Phenix. Tagging-gas system experiences were accumulated in EBR-II and FFTF.
Yamamoto, Tomohiko; Kato, Atsushi; Chikazawa, Yoshitaka; Oya, Takeaki*; Iwasaki, Mikinori*; Hara, Hiroyuki*; Akiyama, Yo*
Proceedings of 2012 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP '12) (CD-ROM), p.500 - 508, 2012/06
Japan Sodium-cooled Fast Reactor (JSFR) is planning to adopt the new concepts of reactor building. One is that the steel plate reinforced concrete is adopted for containment vessel and reactor building. The other is the advanced seismic isolation system. This paper describes the detail of new concepts for JSFR reactor building and engineering evaluation of the new concepts.
Kato, Atsushi; Chikazawa, Yoshitaka; Uzawa, Masayuki*
Proceedings of 2012 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP '12) (CD-ROM), p.475 - 482, 2012/06
Responding to the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant (1F-NPP) accident, the earthquake and the tsunami proof of the fuel handling system (FHS) in Japan Sodium-cooled Fast Reactor (JSFR) is studied. In the earthquake proof estimation, the margin of seismic resistance against the earthquake of the 1F-envelop condition and the sloshing behavior in the EVST is estimated. In terms of the tsunami proof, the scenario to lead fuel subassemblies into the stable cooling state and the potential of the cooling system is introduced in case of loss of the emergency power supply. As a result, it is clear that JSFR FHS originally could already be prepared to have the potential to prevent the release of radioactive material.
Kisohara, Naoyuki; Suzuki, Hiroshi; Akita, Koichi; Kasahara, Naoto*
Proceedings of 2012 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP '12) (CD-ROM), p.621 - 630, 2012/06
Ishikawa, Nobuyuki; Chikazawa, Yoshitaka; Fujita, Kaoru; Yamada, Yumi*; Okazaki, Hitoshi*; Suzuki, Shinichi*
Proceedings of 2012 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP '12) (CD-ROM), p.483 - 489, 2012/06
The development of safety protection system for JSFR is progressed in terms of logic circuits, selection of trip signals and its setting values for reactor trip. In addition, it is necessitated to evaluate the satisfaction for requirements of the safety protection system by safety analyses considering comprehensive parameter ranges. For this purpose, we will report the current status of the development focusing on the evaluation results for satisfaction of safety protection system based on safety standard.