• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.68-68
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• 2004

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.96-96
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• 2004

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 2002.10a
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• pp.148-148
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• 2002

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.46 no.6
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• pp.875-882
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• 2014

In terms of safety and the efficient management of spent fuel storage, detecting failed fuel is one of the most important tasks in a CANada Deuterium Uranium (CANDU) reactor operation. It has been successfully demonstrated that in a CANDU reactor, on-power failed fuel detection and location systems, along with alarm area gamma monitors, can detect and locate defective and suspect fuel bundles before discharging them from the reactor to the spent fuel storage bay. In the reception bay, however, only visual inspection has been used to identify suspect bundles. Gaseous fission product and delayed neutron monitoring systems cannot precisely distinguish failed fuel elements from each fuel bundle. This study reports the use of a sipping system in a CANDU reactor for the integrity assessment of spent fuel bundles. The integrity assessment of spent fuel bundles using this sipping system has shown promise as a nondestructive test for detecting a defective fuel bundle in a CANDU reactor.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.45 no.5
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• pp.589-596
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• 2013

In a pressurized heavy water reactor, following loss of the primary coolant, severe core damage would begin with the depletion of the liquid moderator, exposing the top row of internally-voided fuel channels to steam cooling conditions on the inside and outside. The uncovered fuel channels would heat up, deform and disassemble into core debris. Large inventories of water passively reduce the rate of progression of the accident, prolonging the time for complete loss of engineered heat sinks. The efficacy of available backup and ultimate heat sinks, available in a CANDU 6 reactor, in mitigating the consequences of a prolonged station blackout scenario was analysed using the MAAP4-CANDU code. The analysis indicated that the steam generator secondary side water inventory is the most effective heat sink during the accident. Additional heat sinks such as the primary coolant, moderator, calandria vault water and end shield water are also able to remove decay heat; however, a gradually increasing mismatch between heat generation and heat removal occurs over the course of the postulated event. This mismatch is equivalent to an additional water inventory estimated to be 350,000 kg at the time of calandria vessel failure. In the Enhanced CANDU 6 reactor ~2,040,000 kg of water in the reserve water tank is available for prolonged emergencies requiring heat sinks.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.31-38
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• 1986

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.418-426
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• 1995

설계의 신뢰성은 응력해석을 통하여 확인될 수 있으며, 해석결과는 대상 부품의 구조적 건전성을 입증하는 근거가 된다. 본 보고서는 ANSYS의 피로해석 모듈을 이용한 CANDU 6핵연료채널의 응력해석 및 ASME Code에 따른 해석 절차 개발을 소개하였다. 응력해석은 ASME Code Section III NB-3200 의 $\ulcorner$Design by Analysis$\lrcorner$에 기초한 해석절차에 따라 수행하였으며, 체계적인 해석을 위해 자료 처리용 ANSYS 매크로 및 FORTRAN 프로그램을 개발하였다. 해석은 각 조건에 따라 기계적응력과 열응력해석으로 분리하여 수행한 후 조합되었으며, ANSYS 피로해석 모듈을 이용하여 선정된 절점들의 기계적응력과 열응력의 합에 대한 최대응력강도범위를 계산하였다. 응력해석 결과, CANDU 6 핵연료채널의 구조적 건전성이 입증되었으며, ANSYS를 이용한 ASME Code해석절차가 확립되어 CANDU 원자로 해석의 신뢰성을 크게 향상 시켰음은 물론 독자적인 수행을 위한 발판을 마련하였다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.55 no.7
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• pp.2670-2677
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• 2023

In the nuclear safety studies, a new trend refers to the evaluation of uncertainties as a mandatory component of best-estimate safety analysis which is a modern and technically consistent approach being known as BEPU (Best Estimate Plus Uncertainty). The major objectives of this study consist in performing a study of uncertainties/sensitivities of the major analysis results for a generic CANDU 6 Nuclear Power Plant during Station Blackout (SBO) progression to understand and characterize the sources of uncertainties and their effects on the key figure-of-merits (FOMs) predictions in severe accidents (SA). The FOMs of interest are hydrogen mass generation and event timings such as the first fuel channel failure time, beginning of the core disassembly time, core collapse time and calandria vessel failure time. The outcomes of the study, will allow an improvement of capabilities and expertise to perform uncertainty and sensitivity analysis with severe accident codes for CANDU 6 Nuclear Power Plant.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.34 no.5
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• pp.502-516
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• 2002

Wolsong NPP are CANDU6 type reactors and there are 4 CANDU6 type reactors in commercial operation. CANDU type reactors require on-power refuelling by two remote controlled F/Ms (Fuelling Machines). Most of channels, fuel bundles are float by channel coolant flow and move toward downstream, however in about 30% of channels the coolant flow are not sufficient enough to carry fuel bundles to downstream. For those channels a special device, FARE (Flow Assist Ram Extension) device, is used to create additional force to push fuel bundles. It has been showing that during fuelling operation of some channels the channel coolant flow rate is reduced below specified limit (80% of normal), and consequently trip alarm signal turns on. This phenomenon occurs on selected channels that are instrumented for the channel flow and required to use the FARE device for refuelling. Hence it is believed that the FARE device causes the problem. It is also suspected that other channels that do not use the FARE device for refuelling might also go into channel flow low state. The analysis revealed that the channel How low occurs as the FARE device is introduced into the core and disappears as the FARE device is removed from the core. This paper presented the FARE device behavior, detailed fuelling operation sequence with the FARE device and effect on channel flow low phenomena. The FARE device components design changes are also suggested, such as increasing the number or now holes in the tube and flow slots in the ring orifice.

• ICROS
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• v.2 no.5
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• pp.56-62
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• 1996

캐나다 원자력공사(AECL)에 의하여 1960년대 초에 개발되어 상업운전중이거나 건설중인 CANDU 6 발전소는 중앙집중제어방식을 채택하여 계통의 성능 및 신뢰성이 입증되었으나 경제성 및 유지보수의 어려움으로 인하여 현재 개발이 진행중인 CANDU3과 CANDU9 발전소에서는 프로그래머블 콘트롤러를 이용한 분산제어방식을 기반으로 하여 계측제어계통이 설계되고 있다. 분산제어계통은 우수한 확장성과 신뢰성으로 인하여 이미 일반 산업 분야에서 널리 활용되고 있으며 최근에는 원자력발전소에도 적용범위가 계속해서 확대되고 있다. 본 보고서는 최신의 계측제어기술을 적용하여 차세대 대용량 원자력발전소로 개발중인 CANDU9 발전소의 발전소 전제어계통과 핵연료취급제어계통 등 계측제어계통에 대한 주요 계통설계 방안과 분산제어계통의 설계개념을 소개하고 CANDU 발전소에 분산제어방식을 적용한 장점을 고찰하고자 한다.