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New reactor cavity cooling system (RCCS) with passive safety features; A Comparative methodology between a real RCCS and a scaled-down heat-removal test facility

Takamatsu, Kuniyoshi; Matsumoto, Tatsuya*; Morita, Koji*

Annals of Nuclear Energy, 96, p.137 - 147, 2016/10

 Times Cited Count:5 Percentile:43.41(Nuclear Science & Technology)

After Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster by TEPCO, a cooling system to prevent core damage became more important from the perspective of defense in depth. Therefore, a new, highly efficient RCCS with passive safety features without a requirement for electricity and mechanical drive is proposed. Employing the air as the working fluid and the ambient air as the ultimate heat sink, the new RCCS design strongly reduces the possibility of losing the heat sink for decay heat removal. The RCCS can always stably and passively remove a part of the released heat at the rated operation and the decay heat after reactor shutdown. Specifically, emergency power generators are not necessary and the decay heat can be passively removed for a long time, even forever if the heat removal capacity of the RCCS is sufficient. We can also define the experimental conditions on radiation and natural convection for the scale-down heat removal test facility.

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New reactor cavity cooling system with a novel shape and passive safety features

Takamatsu, Kuniyoshi; Matsumoto, Tatsuya*; Morita, Koji*

Proceedings of 2016 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP 2016) (CD-ROM), p.1250 - 1257, 2016/04

After Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster by TEPCO, a cooling system to prevent core damage became more important from the perspective of defense in depth. Therefore, a new, highly efficient RCCS with passive safety features without a requirement for electricity and mechanical drive is proposed. Employing the air as the working fluid and the ambient air as the ultimate heat sink, the new RCCS design strongly reduces the possibility of losing the heat sink for decay heat removal. The RCCS can always stably and passively remove a part of the released heat at the rated operation and the decay heat after reactor shutdown. Specifically, emergency power generators are not necessary and the decay heat can be passively removed for a long time, even forever if the heat removal capacity of the RCCS is sufficient. We can also define the experimental conditions on radiation and natural convection for the scale-down heat removal test facility.

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New Reactor Cavity Cooling System (RCCS) having passive safety features, 1; Experimental conditions of a scale-down heat removal test facility for comparison with a real RCCS

Takamatsu, Kuniyoshi; Matsumoto, Tatsuya*; Morita, Koji*

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After Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster by TEPCO, a cooling system to prevent core damage became more important from the perspective of defense in depth. Therefore, a new, highly efficient RCCS with passive safety features without a requirement for electricity and mechanical drive is proposed. Employing the air as the working fluid and the ambient air as the ultimate heat sink, the new RCCS design strongly reduces the possibility of losing the heat sink for decay heat removal. Now, we conduct experiments with the scale-down heat removal test facility to understand the heat-transfer characteristics and assessed effect of radiation quantitatively. Moreover, after considering experimental conditions for the scale-down heat removal test facility to reproduce radiation and natural convection in the new RCCS, we can also find decision technique for the experimental conditions.

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