Design Evaluation Method of Steel-Plate Reinforced Concrete Structure Containment Vessel for Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor

Tomohiko Yamamoto; Atsushi Katoh; Yoshitaka Chikazawa; Kazuo Negishi

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JDR Vol.7 No.5 pp. 645-655

(2012)

doi: 10.20965/jdr.2012.p0645

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Design Evaluation Method of Steel-Plate Reinforced Concrete Structure Containment Vessel for Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor

Tomohiko Yamamoto, Atsushi Katoh, Yoshitaka Chikazawa,
and Kazuo Negishi

Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), 4002 Narita, Oarai, Ibaraki 311-1393, Japan

Received:

May 17, 2012

Accepted:

July 31, 2012

Published:

October 1, 2012

Keywords:

JSFR, SC structure, containment vessel, SCCV, fast reactor

Abstract

The Japan Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor (JSFR) adopts the new concept of a containment vessel called a steel-plate-reinforced concrete containment vessel (SCCV). The SCCV is considered to be effective in shortening construction periods by the elimination of rebar work at a site compared with applying a reinforced concrete CV. In addition to this advantage, the SCCV achieves high-quality building structure because steel structural parts are fabricated at a factory prior to site construction. Although the SC structure has been used for buildings at a light-water reactor (LWR), etc., the SC structure has not yet been adopted for the CV. An SFR CV has a lower pressure environment than the LWR CV, although the environmental temperature of the SFR is much higher than that of the LWR in the postulated coolant leakage accident. It is therefore important to investigate its characteristics at high temperature to adopt the SC structure to the JSFR CV because the CV keeps containment functions in accidents to be assumed in design. This paper describes the construction of the design evaluation method from design (construction period shortening) and accident management, experimental, and analytical points of view.

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T. Yamamoto, A. Katoh, Y. Chikazawa, and K. Negishi, “Design Evaluation Method of Steel-Plate Reinforced Concrete Structure Containment Vessel for Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor,” J. Disaster Res., Vol.7 No.5, pp. 645-655, 2012.

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[7] [7] T. Yamamoto et al., “Conceptual Design Study of JSFR Reactor Building,” Proceedings of ICAPP’12, June 24-28, 2012, Chicago, USA, Paper ID #12387.

[8] [8] European Committee for Standardization (CEN), “Eurocode 4 – Design of composite steel and concrete structures – Parts 1-2 : Structural fire design,” European Prestandard, CEN, Brussels, Final Draft prENV 1994-1-2, Oct. 1993.

[9] [9] T. Hosoya et al., “Conceptual Design for Japan Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor (4): Developmental Study of Steel Plate Reinforced Concrete Containment Vessel for JSFR,” Proc. of ICAPP’09, 2009, Paper 9418.

Design Evaluation Method of Steel-Plate Reinforced Concrete Structure Containment Vessel for Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor

Tomohiko Yamamoto, Atsushi Katoh, Yoshitaka Chikazawa, and Kazuo Negishi

Tomohiko Yamamoto, Atsushi Katoh, Yoshitaka Chikazawa,
and Kazuo Negishi