安全壳直接加热(DCH)严重事故现象研究

本文以福建福清一期核电厂为目标电厂,利用以双隔间平衡法和拉丁超立方抽样为基础而开发的计算程序,对安全壳直接加热(DCH)的严重事故现象进行了研究。得到了不同事故工况条件下DCH产生的安全壳峰值压力的概率分布曲线。此外,根据计算得到的安全壳脆性曲线,结合DCH计算结果最终得到了不同事故工况下DCH可能造成安全壳失效的概率。同时还对影响DCH后果的主要因素以及相应的严重事故缓解策略进行了研究分析。     

使用FCI-CMFD软件分析岭澳二期核电厂直接安全壳加热事故

采用分析熔融物与冷却剂反应(FCI)的三维多相流数值计算软件MC3D,建立岭澳二期核电厂模型,对严重事故下可能发生的直接安全壳加热(DCH)现象进行了模拟和分析。为准确预测事故现象,本文结合全厂断电事故后期参数与岭澳二期核电厂核岛几何模型,模拟事故过程。计算得出了事故下安全壳内气体温度场、熔滴体积份额场、速度场及压力随时间的变化。结果表明：直接安全壳加热事故会在短时间内引起安全壳内压力和局部温度的迅速上升。     

三代压水堆核电厂DCH参数敏感性研究

安全壳直接加热（DCH）是导致安全壳早期超压的主要贡献之一,严重威胁安全壳完整性,并可能造成放射性物质早期大量不可控释放。本文以我国某三代压水堆为研究对象,首先基于风险导向的事故分析方法（ROAAM）,利用双隔间平衡（TCE）模型编写程序计算典型事故工况下的DCH载荷;其次结合安全壳失效概率曲线得出DCH现象造成的安全壳失效概率;最后对计算程序中不易得到的参数或经验值等不确定性较大的参数进行敏感性分析,归纳敏感性分析结果,找出敏感参数的不确定因素。结果表明：熔融物质量、堆腔几何设计、安全壳布置设计会直接影响DCH后果。     

压水堆核电厂安全壳过滤排放系统卸压策略分析

压水堆核电厂可采用过滤排放的方式来应对严重事故下安全壳超压失效的风险。本文采用一体化事故分析程序,建立了压水堆(PWR)核电厂大型干式安全壳节点模型以及过滤排放通道模型,选取全厂断电(SBO)始发的严重事故序列,分别计算了无安全壳过滤排放的工况、过滤排放系统(EUF)在安全壳压力上升到安全壳设计压力0.52 MPa(a)时启动但不关闭工况下,安全壳的压力情况以及放射性物质向外释放的量。并分析EUF不同开启压力0.52 MPa(a)/0.625 MPa(a)/0.73 MPa(a),不同关闭压力0.30 MPa(a)/0.35 MPa(a)/0.40 MPa(a)对安全壳卸压的影响,分析表明:EUF系统的投入可以在避免安全壳超压失效的同时,有效减少气溶胶类放射性物质的释放;EUF关闭整定值较高时,相同时间段内开启次数相应增加,向环境的放射性释放量也较少;提高EUF的开启压力,会延迟放射性物质向环境释放的时间。     

小破口引发的严重事故工况及事故缓解的研究

利用MAAP4程序对方家山核电站进行建模,针对事故后果较为严重的小破口事件进行了计算分析,得到了假设事故下电厂系统的反应以及相应的严重事故现象.对事故中发生的DCH(安全壳直接加热)现象和安全壳失效以及裂变产物向环境的释放进行了分析.随后,本文根据相关的严重事故管理导则和该事故的特点,对缓解该事故的策略进行了研究和计算...     

小破口冷却剂丧失始发安全壳失效事故源项行为分析

采用一体化严重事故仿真程序对600MW压水堆核电厂小破口冷却剂丧失(SB-LOCA)始发安全壳隔离失效、安全壳早期失效和晚期失效三类事故的源项行为进行分析。分析结果表明:(1)由于沉积作用或残留在熔融物中,挥发类和非挥发类裂变产物相对于惰性气体类,释入环境份额较小;(2)事故进程中安全壳与环境之间较小的压差和安全壳较晚的失效时间,分别使得在安全壳隔离失效和晚期失效事故中裂变产物较为缓慢地释入环境;(3)安全壳早期失效事故中,在安全壳直接加热(DCH)现象发生后熔融物颗粒与安全壳大气换热过程中,从熔融物释出的挥发性与非挥发性裂变产物在安全壳失效后快速地释入环境。上述结论可为严重事故源项缓解措施研究、厂外后果评价以及应急策略制定提供技术支持。     

核电厂全厂断电事故下安全壳响应的计算分析

利用一体化安全分析程序研究核电厂全厂断电(SBO)事故工况下安全壳的响应。研究表明,SBO事故下安全壳会发生超压失效,如果及时恢复交流(AC)电源,安全壳内的压力和温度会迅速降低,安全壳不会发生超压失效。在压力容器失效前恢复AC电源,压力容器就有可能保持完整性。压力容器破损后,AC电源的恢复将使得安全壳内蒸汽浓度大幅减少,从而相应增加了氢气的浓度,导致氢气风险的增加。     

PCS表面液膜覆盖率对安全壳完整性影响分析

钢制安全壳是防止严重事故工况下放射性物质向环境释放的最后一道屏障,因此有必要研究分析事故条件下安全壳外液膜覆盖率对安全壳完整性影响,以得到安全壳在事故工况下的失效裕度。应用非能动安全壳分析程序,建立了大功率非能动反应堆非能动安全壳冷却系统(Passive Containment Cooling System,PCS)的热工水力模型,并以冷段双端剪切事故为基准研究对象,分别研究了水分配器单一故障和出水管堵管叠加水分配器故障两种事故工况。分析结果表明,两种事故工况在液膜覆盖率大于35%时,均不会出现短期安全壳超压超温失效;事故后24 h,液膜覆盖率低于45%时,安全壳出现长期冷却失效。此次研究得出结论:在流量大于61.76 m3·h-1、安全壳液膜覆盖率大于45%时,事故发生后24 h安全壳不会失效。     

核电厂直接安全壳加热事故的数值模拟与分析

文章采用三维多相流数值计算软件,建立AP1000核电厂模型,对高压熔堆严重事故下可能发生的直接安全壳加热(DCH)现象进行模拟和分析。为了能准确预测事故现象,本文结合全厂断电事故后期参数和AP1000核岛几何模型,考虑压力容器内存在冷却剂和不存在冷却剂两种工况,模拟事故过程。计算安全壳内气体温度场、熔滴体积份额场以及压力随时间的变化。结果表明:直接安全壳加热事故会在短时间内引起安全壳压力和局部温度的迅速上升;在本文中压力容器内存在冷却剂会加剧DCH现象的后果,但不会威胁安全壳的完整性。     

压水堆核电厂严重事故卸压阀能力评估

在百万千瓦级压水堆核电厂中为防止高压熔堆严重事故发生时发生高压熔喷(HPME)和安全壳直接加热(DCH),参考EPR堆型在稳压器上额外设置严重事故卸压阀(SADV),对主系统进行快速卸压。建立百万千瓦级压水堆核电厂事故分析模型,选取丧失厂外电叠加汽动辅助给水泵失效,一回路管道小破口以及丧失主给水三条典型严重事故序列,进行系统热工水力及卸压能力分析。计算结果表明:如果不开启严重事故卸压阀,三条事故序列在压力容器下封头失效时一回路压力均较高,有发生高压熔喷和安全壳直接加热的风险。根据严重事故管理导则开启严重事故卸压阀,可以有效降低一回路压力,三条事故序列均可以防止高压熔喷和安全壳直接加热发生。针对卸压阀阀门面积的影响进行分析,表明阀门面积减小到4.8×10-3 m2后下封头失效时RCS压力会有所增加,仍然能够满足RCS的卸压要求,且可延迟下封头失效时间。     

Comparison of and TCE calculations for direct containment heating of Surry

This paper presents the results of several CONTAIN code calculations used to model direct containment heating (DCH) loads for the Surry plant. The results of these calculations are compared with the results obtained using the two-cell equilibrium (TCE) model for the same set of initial and boundary conditions. This comparison is important because both models have been favorably validated against the available DCH database, yet there are potentially important modeling differences. The comparisons are to quantitatively assess the impact of these differences. A major conclusion of this study is that, for the accident conditions studied and for a broad range of sensitivity cases, the peak pressures predicted by both TCE and are well below the failure pressure for the Surry containment.     

A two-cell equilibrium model for predicting direct containment heating

This paper discusses two adiabatic equilibrium models. Assessment and validation of the separate effects (kinetic) models and the parameters (i.e. particle size) that control them are not required. The first, a single-cell equilibrium model, places a true upper bound on direct containment heating (DCH) loads. This upper bound, when compared with the entire DCH database, often far exceeds experiment observations by a margin too large to be useful in reactor analyses. The single-cell model is used as a conceptual seed for a two-cell model. A two-cell equilibrium (TCE) model is developed that captures the dominant mitigating features of containment compartmentalization and the noncoherence of the entrainment and blowdown processes. The existing DCH database has been used to extensively validate the TCE model. DCH loads are shown to be insensitive to physical scale and details of the subcompartment geometry. A simple model is developed to predict the coherence of debris dispersal and reactor coolant system blowdown. The coherence ratio is independent of physical scale and only weakly dependent on cavity design.     

Closure of the direct containment heating issue for Zion

This paper, which was originally published in more detail (M.M. Pilch, M.D. Allen, D.L. Knudsen, D.W. Stamps and E.L. Tadios, Rep. NUREG/CR-6075, Supplement 1, 1994b (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM)), provides closure of the direct containment heating (DCH) issue for the Zion plant. It incorporates the comments and suggestions of the peer reviewers of NUREG/CR-6075 (M.M. Pilch, H. Yan, and T.G. Theofanous, Rep. NUREG/CR-6075, SAND93-1535, 1994a (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM)) and specifically includes assessments of four new splinter scenarios defined in working group meetings and modeling enhancements recommended by the working groups. In the four new scenarios, consistency of the initial conditions has been implemented by using insights from systems-level codes. was used to analyze three short-term station blackout cases with different leak rates. In all three cases, the hot leg or surge line failed well before the lower head and thus the primary system depressurized to a point where DCH was no longer considered a threat. However, these calculations were continued to lower head failure in order to gain insights that were useful in establishing the initial and boundary conditions. The most useful insights are that the reactor coolant system pressure is low at vessel breach, metallic blockages in the core region do not melt and relocate into the lower plenum, and melting of upper plenum steel is correlated with hot leg failure. The output was used as input to to assess the containment conditions at vessel breach. The containment-side conditions predicted by are similar to those originally specified in NUREG/CR-6075.The methodology originally developed in NUREG/CR-6075 (M.M. Pilch, H. Yan, and T.G. Theofanous, Rep. NUREG/CR-6075, SAND93-1535, 1994a (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM)) was used to analyze the new splinter scenarios. Some modeling enhancements in response to working group discussions were implemented for these analyses. The entrainment of hydrogen pre-existing in the atmosphere into a burning jet was examined more carefully. In addition, the impact of DCH-induced deflagrations on DCH loads was quantified. A new computational tool—the two-cell equilibrium—Latin hypercube sampling (TCE-LHS) code—was developed for this effort to perform Monte Carlo sampling of the scenario distributions. The TCE-LHS code was benchmarked against the original Scenario I calculations in NUREG/CR-6075 performed using the code, which is based on the method of discrete probability distributions. The results were in excellent agreement.The analyses of the new scenarios showed no intersection of the load distributions and the containment fragility curves, and thus the containment failure probability was negligible for each scenario. These supplemental analyses complete closure of the DCH issue for Zion.     

Effect analysis of the intentional depressurization on fission product behavior during TMLB' severe accident

It has been found that the pressure in the reactor coolant system (RCS) remains high in some severe accident sequences at the time of reactor vessel failure, with the risk of causing direct containment heating (DCH).Intentional depressurization is an effective accident management strategy to prevent DCH or to mitigate its consequences. Fission product behavior is affected by intentional depressurization, especially for inert gas and volatile fission product. Because the pressurizer power-operated relief valves (PORVs) are latched open, fission product will transport into the containment directly. This may cause larger radiological consequences in containment before reactor vessel failure. Four cases are selected, including the TMLB' base case and the opening one, two and three pressurizer PORVs. The results show that inert gas transports into containment more quickly when opening one and two PORVs,but more slowly when opening three PORVs; more volatile fission product deposit in containment and less in reactor coolant system (RCS) for intentional depressurization cases. When opening one PORV, the phenomenon of revaporization is strong in the RCS.     

Investigations into the physical phenomena and mechanisms that effect direct containment heating loads

Integral direct containment heating (DCH) experiment results are presented. The results are analyzed and discussed for the insights they have given into understanding the important physical phenomena and mechanisms that effect DCH loads to the containment. Particular attention is paid to (1) debris dispersal from the cavity and containment structure trapping, (2) hydrogen production and combustion, (3) the importance of difference in corium simulants used in integral DCH experiments and (4) corium debris quenching by flooded cavities. It is found that much has been learned about DCH phenomena that can be used for modeling and assessing potential containment loads.     

Direct containment heating integral effects tests in geometries of European nuclear power plants

The DISCO test facility at Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe (FZK) has been used to perform experiments to investigate direct containment heating (DCH) effects during a severe accident in European nuclear power plants, comprising the EPR, the French 1300 MWe plant P’4, the VVER-1000 and the German Konvoi plant. A high-temperature iron–alumina melt is ejected by steam into scaled models of the respective reactor cavities and the containment vessel. Both heat transfer from dispersed melt and combustion of hydrogen lead to containment pressurization. The main experimental findings are presented and critical parameters are identified.The consequences of DCH are limited in reactors with no direct pathway between the cavity and the containment dome (closed pit). The situation is more severe for reactors which do have a direct pathway between the cavity and the containment (open pit). The experiments showed that substantial fractions of corium may be dispersed into the containment in such cases, if the pressure in the reactor coolant system is elevated at the time of RPV failure. Primary system pressures of 1 or 2 MPa are sufficient to lead to full scale DCH effects. Combustion of the hydrogen produced by oxidation as well as the hydrogen initially present appears to be the crucial phenomenon for containment pressurization.     

Evaluation of intentional depressurization strategy in Chinese 600 MWe PWR NPP

Intentional depressurization is one of the effective strategies in preventing high-pressure melt ejection (HPME) and direct containment heating (DCH), which is most feasible for the operating nuclear power plants (NPPs) in China. In order to evaluate this strategy of a Chinese 600 MWe PWR NPP, the plant model is built using SCDAP/RELAP5 code. ATWS, SBO, SGTR and SLOCA are selected as the base cases for analysis of intentional depressurization. The results show that opening safety valves of pressurizer manually when the core exit temperature exceeds 922 K can reduce the RCS pressure effectively and prevent the occurrence of HPME and DCH. Several uncertainties such as the operability of safety valves, ex-vessel failure and the transitory rise of RCS pressure are also analyzed subsequently. The results show that the opening of the safety valves can be initiated normally and that opening three safety valves is a more favorable strategy in the event of possible failure of one or more of the safety valves; the probability of ex-vessel failure is reduced after intentional depressurization is implemented; the transitory rising of reactor coolant system (RCS) pressure when the molten core materials relocate to the lower head of reactor pressure vessel (RPV) will not influence the effect of depressurization.     

Detailed Evaluation of RCS Boundary Rupture during High-Pressure Severe Accident Sequences

A depressurization possibility of the reactor coolant system (RCS) before a reactor vessel rupture during a high-pressure severe accident sequence has been evaluated for the consideration of direct containment heating (DCH) and containment bypass. A total loss of feed water (TLOFW) and a station blackout (SBO) of the advanced power reactor 1400 (APR1400) has been evaluated from an initiating event to a creep rupture of the RCS boundary by using the SCDAP/RELAP5 computer code. In addition, intentional depressurization of the RCS using power-operated safety relief valves (POSRVs) has been evaluated. The SCDAPRELAP5 results have shown that the pressurizer surge line broke before the reactor vessel rupture failure, but a containment bypass did not occur because steam generator U tubes did not break. The intentional depressurization of the RCS using POSRV was effective for the DCH prevention at a reactor vessel rupture.