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Japan’s TEPCO resumes operations; Monday earthquake triggers response
Commercial operations have resumed at Kashiwazaki Kariwa nuclear power plant in Japan’s Niigata Prefecture, Tokyo Electric Power Company has announced.
Last week’s commercial restart of Unit 6, a 1,315-MWe boiling water reactor, is the first for a TEPCO nuclear facility since the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami triggered an accident at the utility’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
W. Frisch, S. Langenbuch, P. Peternell
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 64 | Number 4 | December 1977 | Pages 843-848
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE77-A14499
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Thermohydraulic feedback effects in a boiling water reactor during pressure transients are analyzed. Transient calculations are carried out with the one-dimensional nonlinear plant model ALMOS. A reference case of the analysis is a turbine trip without bypass (loss of heat sink) and delayed scram action. Neutron flux and fuel temperatures are investigated with respect to such feedback parameters as the Doppler coefficient, moderator feedback, and heat generation in the coolant. The amount of heat generated in the coolant is recognized as an important parameter. The sensitivity of the system to this parameter is further analyzed qualitatively by frequency response methods.