Insulation Performance of Safety-Related Electrical Penetrations for Pressurized Water Reactors under Simulated Severe Accident Conditions

カテゴリ: 論文誌(論文単位)

グループ名: 【A】基礎・材料・共通部門

発行日: 2021/10/01

タイトル(英語): Insulation Performance of Safety-Related Electrical Penetrations for Pressurized Water Reactors under Simulated Severe Accident Conditions

著者名: Aiki Watanabe (Regulatory Standard and Research Department, Secretariat of Nuclear Regulation Authority (S/NRA/R)), Masaaki Ikeda (Regulatory Standard and Research Department, Secretariat of Nuclear Regulation Authority (S/NRA/R)), Takefumi Minakawa (Regu

著者名(英語): Aiki Watanabe (Regulatory Standard and Research Department, Secretariat of Nuclear Regulation Authority (S/NRA/R)), Masaaki Ikeda (Regulatory Standard and Research Department, Secretariat of Nuclear Regulation Authority (S/NRA/R)), Takefumi Minakawa (Regu

キーワード: nuclear power plant，severe accident，steam exposure，electrical penetration

要約(英語): Electrical penetrations (EPs) in nuclear power plants play an important role in keeping a primary containment vessel airtight and connecting electrical cables from inside to outside of the vessel. Safety-related EPs that are categorized as “severe-accident (SA) equipment” must maintain their intended functions under various SA environmental conditions even after aging under their normal operating conditions throughout their service lifetime. To investigate the insulation performance of EPs in a SA environment, we tested two EPs that were equivalent to those used in pressurized water reactors in Japan. One EP specimen was pre-aged in a concurrent thermal and radiation environment at 100℃ and 100 Gy/h for 100 days to simulate the degradation induced during the designated service period. The other EP specimen was used without pre-aging. To simulate the degradation induced by radiation during a SA, the EPs were irradiated with gamma rays to a total dose of 500 kGy at a dose rate of 7 kGy/h. Subsequently, the EP specimens were exposed to saturated steam at 155℃ and 0.45 MPaG for 168 h. The electrical insulation resistance between the insulated cores of cables in each EP specimen was monitored during the steam exposure. The minimum insulation resistances measured during the steam exposure for the EP specimens with and without pre-aging were about 109 and 108 Ω, respectively, confirming that they retained sufficiently high insulation performance.

本誌: 電気学会論文誌A（基礎・材料・共通部門誌） Vol.141 No.10 （2021） 特集：9th International Symposium on Electrical Insulating Materials

本誌掲載ページ: 552-559 p

原稿種別: 論文／英語

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