ADVANCED SEISMIC BASE ISOLATION METHODS FOR MODULAR REACTORS

E. Blanford ; E. Keldrauk ; M. Laufer ; M. Mieler ; J. Wei ; B. Stojadinovic ; P.F. Peterson

关键词: AIRCRAFT;    CONSTRUCTION;    DECOMMISSIONING;    DESIGN;    ECONOMICS;    IN-SERVICE INSPECTION;    LICENSING;    MAINTENANCE;    MODULAR STRUCTURES;    MONITORING;    NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS;    RELIABILITY;    SAFEGUARDS;    SAFETY;    SECURITY;   

DOI  :  10.2172/1004114
RP-ID  :  DOE/ID/14923
PID  :  OSTI ID: 1004114
Others  :  TRN: US1101321

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来源: SciTech Connect

【 摘 要 】

Advanced technologies for structural design and construction have the potential for major impact not only on nuclear power plant construction time and cost, but also on the design process and on the safety, security and reliability of next generation of nuclear power plants. In future Generation IV (Gen IV) reactors, structural and seismic design should be much more closely integrated with the design of nuclear and industrial safety systems, physical security systems, and international safeguards systems. Overall reliability will be increased, through the use of replaceable and modular equipment, and through design to facilitate on-line monitoring, in-service inspection, maintenance, replacement, and decommissioning. Economics will also receive high design priority, through integrated engineering efforts to optimize building arrangements to minimize building heights and footprints. Finally, the licensing approach will be transformed by becoming increasingly performance based and technology neutral, using best-estimate simulation methods with uncertainty and margin quantification. In this context, two structural engineering technologies, seismic base isolation and modular steel-plate/concrete composite structural walls, are investigated. These technologies have major potential to (1) enable standardized reactor designs to be deployed across a wider range of sites, (2) reduce the impact of uncertainties related to site-specific seismic conditions, and (3) alleviate reactor equipment qualification requirements. For Gen IV reactors the potential for deliberate crashes of large aircraft must also be considered in design. This report concludes that base-isolated structures should be decoupled from the reactor external event exclusion system. As an example, a scoping analysis is performed for a rectangular, decoupled external event shell designed as a grillage. This report also reviews modular construction technology, particularly steel-plate/concrete construction using factory prefabricated structural modules, for application to external event shell and base isolated structures.