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Securing the advanced reactor fleet
Physical protection accounts for a significant portion of a nuclear power plant’s operational costs. As the U.S. moves toward smaller and safer advanced reactors, similar protection strategies could prove cost prohibitive. For tomorrow’s small modular reactors and microreactors, security costs must remain appropriate to the size of the reactor for economical operation.
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
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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.