Improvement of plant reliability based on combining of prediction and inspection of crack growth due to intergranular stress corrosion cracking

Uchida, Shunsuke; Chimi, Yasuhiro; Kasahara, Shigeki; Hanawa, Satoshi; Okada, Hidetoshi*; Naito, Masanori*; Kojima, Masayoshi*; Kikura, Hiroshige*; Lister, D. H.*

Nuclear Engineering and Design, 341, p.112 - 123, 2019/01

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nucengdes.2018.10.021

Improvement of plant reliability based on reliability-centered-maintenance (RCM) is going to be undertaken in NPPs. RCM is supported by risk-based maintenance (RBM). The combination of prediction and inspection is one of the key issues to promote RBM. Early prediction of IGSCC occurrence and its propagation should be confirmed throughout the entire plant systems which should be accomplished by inspections at the target locations followed by timely application of suitable countermeasures. From the inspections, accumulated data will be applied to confirm the accuracy of the code, to tune some uncertainties of the key data for prediction, and then, to increase their accuracy. The synergetic effects of prediction and inspection on application of effective and suitable countermeasures are expected. In the paper, the procedures for the combination of prediction and inspection are introduced.

Development of the source term PIRT based on findings during Fukushima Daiichi NPPs accident

Suehiro, Shoichi*; Sugimoto, Jun*; Hidaka, Akihide; Okada, Hidetoshi*; Mizokami, Shinya*; Okamoto, Koji*

Nuclear Engineering and Design, 286, p.163 - 174, 2015/05

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nucengdes.2015.02.005

The severe accident evaluation committee of AESJ (Atomic Energy Society of Japan) developed the thermal hydraulic PIRT (Phenomena Identification and Ranking Table) and the source term PIRT based on findings during the Fukushima Daiichi NPPs accident. These PIRTs aimed to explore the debris distribution and the current condition in the NPPs with high accuracy and to extract higher priority from the aspect of the sophistication of the analytical technology to predict the severe accident phenomena by the code. The ST PIRT was divided into 3 phases for the time domain and 9 categories for the spatial domain. The 68 phenomena were extracted and the importance from viewpoint of the source term was ranked through brainstorming and discussion. This paper described the developed ST PIRT list and summarized the high ranked phenomena in each phase.

COMPASS code development; Validation of multi-physics analysis using particle method for core disruptive accidents in sodium-cooled fast reactors

Koshizuka, Seiichi*; Morita, Koji*; Arima, Tatsumi*; Tobita, Yoshiharu; Yamano, Hidemasa; Ito, Takahiro*; Naito, Masanori*; Shirakawa, Noriyuki*; Okada, Hidetoshi*; Uehara, Yasushi*; et al.

Proceedings of 8th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Thermal-Hydraulics, Operation and Safety (NUTHOS-8) (CD-ROM), 11 Pages, 2010/10

In this paper, FY2009 results of the COMPASS code development are reported. Validation calculations for melt freezing and blockage formation, eutectic reaction of metal fuel, duct wall failure (thermal-hydraulic analysis), fuel pin failure and disruption and duct wall failure (structural analysis) are shown. Phase diagram calculations, classical and first-principles molecular dynamics were used to investigate physical properties of eutectic reactions: metallic fuel/steel and control rod material/steel. Basic studies for the particle method and SIMMER code calculations supported the COMPASS code development. COMPASS is expected to clarify the basis of experimentally-obtained correlations used in SIMMER. Combination of SIMMER and COMPASS will be useful for safety assessment of CDAs as well as optimization of the core design.

Validation for multi-physics simulation of core disruptive accidents in sodium-cooled fast reactors by COMPASS code

Koshizuka, Seiichi*; Morita, Koji*; Arima, Tatsumi*; Zhang, S.*; Tobita, Yoshiharu; Yamano, Hidemasa; Ito, Takahiro*; Naito, Masanori*; Shirakawa, Noriyuki*; Okada, Hidetoshi*; et al.

Proceedings of 13th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics (NURETH-13) (CD-ROM), 11 Pages, 2009/09

Dispersion and freezing of molten core material was calculated by the COMPASS code to compare with the experimental data of GEYSER. Molten core material flowed up with freezing on the pipe inner surface. As a molten pool behavior, CABRI-TPA2 experiment was analyzed, where a sphere of solid steel was surrounded by solid fuel. Power was injected to cause melting and boiling of the steel sphere. SCARABEE-BE+3 test was analyzed by COMPASS as a validation of failure of duct walls.

Code development for multi-physics and multi-scale analysis of core disruptive accidents in fast reactors using particle methods

Koshizuka, Seiichi*; Morita, Koji*; Arima, Tatsumi*; Zhang, S.*; Tobita, Yoshiharu; Yamano, Hidemasa; Ito, Takahiro*; Shirakawa, Noriyuki*; Naito, Masanori*; Okada, Hidetoshi*; et al.

Proceedings of 16th Pacific Basin Nuclear Conference (PBNC-16) (CD-ROM), 6 Pages, 2008/10

A computer code, named COMPASS, is being developed for various complex phenomena of core disruptive accidents (CDAs) in sodium-cooled fast reactors (SFRs). The COMPASS is designed to analyze multi-physics problems involving thermal hydraulics, structure and phase change, in a unified framework of the MPS (Moving Particle Semi-implicit) method. The project has been carried out by six organizations for five years from FY2005 to FY2009. In this paper, the outcomes of the project in FY2007 are presented. Three validation calculations were completed by following the validation plan: melt freezing and blockage formation, molten pool boiling, and duct wall failure. The COMPASS code development was supported by basic studies of the numerical method, material science for eutectic reaction of the metal fuel, and SIMMER-III analyses.

Physics design of advanced steady-state tokamak reactor A-SSTR 2

Nishio, Satoshi; Ushigusa, Kenkichi; Ueda, Shuzo; Polevoi, A.*; Kurita, Genichi; Tobita, Kenji; Kurihara, Ryoichi; Hu, G.; Okada, Hidetoshi*; Murakami, Yoshiki*; et al.

JAERI-Research 2000-029, 105 Pages, 2000/10

JAERI-Research-2000-029.pdf:4.19MB

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Issues associated with source term analysis in accident evaluation and future actions

Maruyama, Yu; Okada, Hidetoshi*; Uchida, Shunsuke*; Hidaka, Akihide

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Risk based strategies for inspection and maintenance of nuclear power plants, 5; An Example for risk based inspection for the events originating IGSCC related causes

Uchida, Shunsuke*; Okada, Hidetoshi*; Naito, Masanori*; Hanawa, Satoshi; Kojima, Masayoshi*; Kikura, Hiroshige*

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no abstracts in English

Issues related to FP behavior for improvement of decommissioning work efficiency and source-term predicting accuracy, 5; Issues extracted from the investigations of accident analyses by NRA

Karasawa, Hidetoshi; Okada, Hidetoshi*; Hidaka, Akihide*

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In order to contribute to "contributing to the improvement of source term prediction technology", which is one of the objectives of this committee, meeting materials of the "Study Group on Analysis of the Accident at TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station" conducted by the Nuclear Regulation Authority have been surveyed. Among them, meeting materials related to three areas were examined. (1) Contamination of the piping system for emergency gas treatment systems and their formation mechanisms, (2) Radiation levels on the operation floor and near the shield plugs and the presence of cesium between the shield plugs, and (3) Dose distribution in the building. As a result of the survey, the following issues were identified. Project 1: Evaluation of vent gas radiation dose, Project 2: Contamination mechanism of bent lines, Project 3: Confirmation of PCV leak pathways. In the future, these issues will be examined and evaluated by working groups, and the progress and results of activities will be summarized in a technical report to help improve the FP emission model.