Development of Operator Action Time for SBLOCA during Plant Shutdown Operation in Power-uprated Kori 3 and 4

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The ECCS performance, which mitigates a postulated catastrophic failure of the main reactor coolant piping during the full power operation, is judged to cover the consequences of LOCA occurring in other plant operational states. During Mode 3 with an accumulator isolated and Mode 4, since the normal alignment of ECCS equipments is changed from that which is available during the power operation, a potential safety issue, which involved the performance of ECCS for LOCA during Mode 3 with the accumulator isolated and Mode 4, was identified in 1985. This study is performed as the plant specific shutdown LOCA program for the power uprated Kori-3 and 4, of which the nominal core power is planned to increase by 4.5%. We determine and verify the operator action time to initiate SI following a small break LOCA in order that the peak clad temperature of fuel does not exceed the 10CFR50.46 limit of 1,477.6 K.We evaluate the 0.1524 m (6 inches) pipe break in the cold leg to develop the SI initiation time. There is a considerable margin to the 10CFR50.46 limit of 1,477.6 K in the case that the SI is manually initiated at 25 min after an operator identifies the symptom of a small break LOCA. However, in respect of the safe plant operation, we decide the operator SI initiation time as 15 min in order that the SI water is supplied to prevent the fuel heat-up during the blowdown phase of a small break LOCA. After then, we evaluate the applicability of the pre-determined SI initiation time to other small break LOCAs, which have a smaller break size, a lower initial decay heat level or a different break location. Since the peak clad temperatures of applicability evaluation cases are lower than those of the umbrella case, we confirm that the pre-determined SI initiation time can be applied to mitigate the small break LOCAs during the plant shutdown operation. The SI initiation time developed in this study will be used in the Abnormal Operating Procedure of the power uprated Kori-3 and 4 for the small break LOCAs during the plant shutdown operation.
社団法人日本原子力学会の論文
2007-09-25

Development of Operator Action Time for SBLOCA during Plant Shutdown Operation in Power-uprated Kori 3 and 4

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