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National labs drive nuclear innovations and uprates for the U.S. fleet
As the United States faces surging electricity demand driven by artificial intelligence, data centers, and a push to bring manufacturing back home, Idaho National Laboratory is leading an effort to modernize and expand the nation’s nuclear power capabilities by revamping the Department of Energy’s Light Water Reactor Sustainability (LWRS) Program.
Daisuke Taniguchi, Yuki Ishiwatari, Naoki Hirokawa, Bumpei Fujioka (Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy)
Proceedings | 2018 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP 2018) | Charlotte, NC, April 8-11, 2018 | Pages 494-502
Spent Fuel Storage Pool (SFP) Probabilistic Safety Assessment/Analyses (PSA) is one of the remarkable areas after the Fukushima Dai-ichi accident. Hitachi-GE developed a SFP PSA model for UK ABWR (United Kingdom Advanced Boiling Water Reactor) GDA (Generic Design Assessment) which considered the following characteristics.
? Adverse effects from reactor accident progression
? Structural integrity in case of cask drop onto SFP
? Hydrogen management in the Level 2 PSA modeling
? Seismic
? Internal Fire and Internal Flooding