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Join ANS for a webinar on exploring background radiation
The American Nuclear Society, in partnership with the Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy, is hosting its next Educator Training event, “K-12 Classroom Investigations: Exploring Background Radiation,” this Thursday, May 16, from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. (EDT).
Register now. The event is complimentary and open to all.
Atsushi Katoh, Yoshitaka Chikazawa, Masayuki Uzawa, Fumiaki Kaneko, Akihiro Ide
Nuclear Technology | Volume 189 | Number 1 | January 2015 | Pages 30-44
Technical Paper | Fission Reactors | doi.org/10.13182/NT13-147
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
In response to the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi (1F) nuclear power plant, designers of the 2010 version of the Japan sodium-cooled fast reactor (JSFR) have been studying the robustness of JSFR's fuel handling system (FHS) against an earthquake and a tsunami. In the earthquake evaluation, the margin of seismic resistance and sloshing in the ex-vessel fuel storage tank (EVST) against an earthquake of the 1F-envelop condition were estimated. In the tsunami evaluation, for the case of loss of emergency power supply, a scenario is studied where fuel subassemblies are led to a stable cooling state, and potentialities for the cooling system are examined. As a result, it is shown that the original design of the JSFR FHS already had the potential to prevent the release of radioactive material. Additionally, some design improvements of the EVST cooling system are introduced.