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The drive to Kairos Power’s reactor demonstration site in Oak Ridge, Tenn., is not only scenic—it’s historic. Nearly 85 years ago, roughly 30,000 construction workers transformed orchards and farmland into a key Manhattan Project site. Depending on your route, you may pass by one of the three gatehouses that were once military checkpoints controlling access to Atomic Energy Commission production facilities.
Shuichi Ishikura, Yang Xu, Kenichiro Satoh
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 178 | Number 1 | September 2014 | Pages 76-85
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE13-50
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The primary hot-leg piping system of the advanced sodium-cooled fast reactor under conceptual study in Japan (named Japan sodium-cooled fast reactor: JSFR) utilizes large-diameter and thin-walled pipes to ensure high coolant velocity, which inevitably leads to the occurrence of flow-induced vibration. Usually, the structural integrity of a piping system under flow-induced vibration is defined to be the maximum stress amplitude below the design fatigue limit. The present study tries to establish a reasonable methodology to estimate the high-cycle fatigue damage due to flow-induced vibration depending on its frequencies and the corresponding stress levels. An analytical procedure for probabilistic fatigue evaluation is developed and applied to the hot-leg piping system. The reasonability of the newly proposed methodology is confirmed from a test simulation.