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In quickest review, NRC approves 20-year renewal for Robinson
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has renewed the Robinson nuclear power plant’s operating license in record time, the agency announced last week.
The subsequent license renewal process for the Hartsville, S.C., facility was completed within 12 months, according to the NRC. The process has typically taken 18 months. This was the first license renewal review conducted under the directive of Executive Order 14300 to streamline processes like renewing operating licenses.
Chun-Chang Chao, Chin-Jang Chang
Nuclear Technology | Volume 130 | Number 1 | April 2000 | Pages 27-38
Technical Paper | Thermal Hydraulics | doi.org/10.13182/NT00-A3075
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The DPRA-SGTR computer program was written to develop a dynamic event tree for the analysis of a steam generator (SG) tube rupture (SGTR) event. Using the dynamic event tree, a full-scope understanding of the possible responses of a plant following an SGTR event and the related actions with the emergency operating procedures (EOPs) can be analyzed. RELAP5/MOD3.2 was linked to DPRA-SGTR to calculate the thermal-hydraulic response of a Westinghouse three-loop pressurized water reactor at the Maanshan nuclear power plant. One SG tube with a double-ended break was postulated at the beginning of the accident. The plant thermal-hydraulic behaviors, status of the mitigation systems, and operator actions following the EOPs were explicitly modeled in the postulated SGTR. A total of 131 sequences were generated after an SGTR event. Among the 131 sequences, 91 sequences with a frequency sum of 8.5 × 10-6 were stopped either because of low-occurrence frequency (<1 × 10-12) or because the preset mission time was reached (30 000 s after initiating the event). Seven out of the 91 sequences with a frequency sum of 6 × 10-9 were intentionally stopped as a fatal error occurred when RELAP5 was calculating the thermal-hydraulic response.