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Nuclear new build procurement considerations
It may seem counterintuitive, but the best time to enhance the ability to support operations and maintenance for a new plant is before construction starts. This is one of many lessons learned by the currently operating nuclear fleet. As construction and startup of many nuclear facilities was completed, it quickly became evident that the ability to efficiently support operations and maintenance was limited. Most of the information necessary to establish and manage procurement of spare and replacement items, maintenance, and configuration of the facilities was unavailable and had to be gathered on a case-by-case, “on-demand” basis. Absence of necessary information and the associated challenges resulted in the need for staff augmentation and multiyear-long projects to develop equipment bills of material and maintenance programs and to perform technical evaluations for the huge quantities of spare and replacement items being requested.
I Wayan Ngarayana, Kenta Murakami, Anis Rohanda, Tatsuya Suzuki
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 198 | Number 4 | April 2024 | Pages 818-824
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2023.2227829
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A large amount of cesium hydroxide (CsOH) is generated during a light water reactor severe accident (SA) and transported through leaky parts to the environment. During that process, some CsOH may interact with oxidized structural materials and change their physicochemical properties. Accurate examination of this interaction is required by source term analysis to derive consistent and appropriate source term transport models, i.e., for SA, decommissioning, and dismantling work of a nuclear reactor. To obtain detailed interaction characteristics, in this study CsOH was exposed to Fe3O4/Fe2O3 and Cr2O3 under a simulated SA environment over a wide temperature range, from 300°C up to 1050°C. As a result, Cs2FeO4, CsFeO2, and Cs2CrO4 were observed at respective temperatures. Cs2FeO4 is stable only at low temperatures and decomposes to form CsFeO2 at about 591°C. However, both Cs2FeO4 and CsFeO2 could react with Cr2O3 to form more stable Cs2CrO4, which melts at 957°C and then completely evaporates at higher temperatures.