Comparative Study on Internal Flooding Prevention Design of Several Types of NPPs and Improvement Suggestions

Abstract

There are many tapes of nuclear power plants (NPPs) in operation and under construction in China, involving M310 reactor, VVER reactor, AP1000 reactor and HPR1000 reactor and so on. The design concepts of each type nuclear power plant are quite different, including active nuclear power plant and passive nuclear power plant, second-generation reactor and third-generation reactor. Their designs for preventing internal flooding are also very different, either through physical isolation or by adding flood prevention barrier, but each reactor type nuclear power plant has its own advantages in flood prevention. In order to further improve the internal flooding prevention ability of nuclear power plants in China, this paper makes a comparative study on the internal flooding prevention design of several mainstream tapes of nuclear power plants in China, and gives the advantages of each nuclear power plant in the internal flooding prevention design. By drawing on the design advantages of other reactor type nuclear power plants and using the analysis method of probabilistic safety assessment (PSA), this paper quantitatively evaluates the improvement of the ability of reactor type nuclear power plant that our company participated in the design or construction to resist internal flooding risk after considering these design optimization, and gives targeted design improvement suggestions.