Weizhen Zheng, Huang Zhang, B. Du, Haoxiang Li, Huaqiang Yin, Xuedong He, Tengyu Ma
{"title":"High-Temperature Corrosion Behavior of Incoloy 800H Alloy in the Impure Helium Environment","authors":"Weizhen Zheng, Huang Zhang, B. Du, Haoxiang Li, Huaqiang Yin, Xuedong He, Tengyu Ma","doi":"10.1155/2022/8098585","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/8098585","url":null,"abstract":"The helium coolant in the primary circuit of the high-temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR) contains traces of impurities, which can induce the corrosion of superalloys when exposed to elevated temperatures. The superalloy damage caused by the corrosion could threaten the safe operation of the reactor. In this work, the corrosion behavior of a representative superalloy (chromium-rich iron base alloy Incoloy 800H) was investigated under the impure helium at different typical temperatures of HTGR. An experimental setup developed for studying the high-temperature corrosion of superalloys was used to investigate the chemical reactions and corrosion behaviors of Incoloy 800H. It was found that CO2 is an important oxygen source in the reaction with chromium, and CO is released as the product. In addition, the observation and computation of the critical temperature (TC) of the reaction between CO2 and carbon in the alloy show that TC is much lower than that (TA) of the microclimate reaction, which indicates that CO2 can protect the scale from destruction. Furthermore, the slight decarbonization of the alloy was found above TC. Also, a model developed by the thermodynamic analysis was proposed to explain the mechanism of slight decarbonization and predict the critical temperature when the CO2-C reaction occurs. This work presents a guideline for protecting the oxide scale of superalloys used in HTGR.","PeriodicalId":21629,"journal":{"name":"Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44016220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Indah Rosidah Maemunah, Z. Su’ud, A. Waris, D. Irwanto
{"title":"Tritium Breeding Performance Analysis of HCLL Blanket Fusion Reactor Employing Vanadium Alloy (V-5Cr-5Ti) as First Wall Material","authors":"Indah Rosidah Maemunah, Z. Su’ud, A. Waris, D. Irwanto","doi":"10.1155/2022/5300160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/5300160","url":null,"abstract":"Neutronic analysis in the HCLL blanket module has been established, and the calculation was performed by the ITER team, including the first wall (FW). In this study, seven materials have been investigated for FW material by considering characteristics such as high neutron fluence capability, low degradation, under irradiation, and high compatibility for blanket material. A three-dimensional configuration simulated in MCNP5 program codes was performed to investigate the neutronic performance and radiation damage effect. Employing seven candidates are vanadium carbide (VC), titanium carbide (TiC), vanadium alloy (V-5Cr-5Ti), graphite (C), tungsten alloy (W-CuCrZr), ceramic alloy (SiC), and HT-9 to study optimization of FW materials configurated in the HCLL blanket module. This novelty study concludes that vanadium alloy (V-5Cr-5Ti) is becoming a promising material candidate. This alloy has the highest number of neutronic performing for 1.27 TBR and 1.26 in multiplication energy factor in all investigations. Meanwhile, the amount of atomic displacement, hydrogen, and helium production are around 22.31 appm, 765.55 appm, and 281.57 appm, respectively. Even though vanadium alloy has a reasonably high radiation damage effect, it is still tolerable compared to several thresholds of DPA. So, it is considered excellent material for FW. Nevertheless, this alloy can replace after 13.45 years for radiation damage.","PeriodicalId":21629,"journal":{"name":"Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46590881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lu Chao, Chunbing Wang, Shuai Chen, Qizhi Duan, Hongyun Xie
{"title":"A Data-Driven Fault Prediction Method for Nuclear Power Systems Based on End-to-End Deep Learning Framework","authors":"Lu Chao, Chunbing Wang, Shuai Chen, Qizhi Duan, Hongyun Xie","doi":"10.1155/2022/2675875","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/2675875","url":null,"abstract":"With the increase in system complexity and operational performance requirements, nuclear energy systems are developing in the direction of intelligence and unmanned, which also requires a higher demand for its safety so that intelligent fault diagnosis and prediction have become a technology that nuclear power plants need to develop at present. At the same time, due to the rapid development of deep learning technology, it has become a meaningful development direction to predict the fault state of nuclear power plants within the framework of supervised deep learning. Usually, the network structure model used in fault diagnosis and prediction requires professional design, which may cost a lot of time and make it difficult to achieve optimal results. For this purpose, we present an end-to-end deep network for nuclear power system prediction (EDN-NPSP), which can automatically mine the transient features of various detection data in the NPS at the current moment through heterogeneous convolution kernels that can increase the receptive field and then predict the feature evolution results of the NPS in the future through a special deep CNN. The results provide an assessment of the future state of NPS. Based on EDN-NPSP presented in this work, we can avoid complicated manual feature extraction and provide the predicted state directly and rapidly. It will provide operators with useful prediction information and enhance the nuclear energy system fault prediction capabilities.","PeriodicalId":21629,"journal":{"name":"Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46804043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tao Zhang, Shengzhi Liu, Weiwei Pan, Tian Wan, Chenhui Dong
{"title":"Nuclear Power Sustainability Path for China from the Perspective of Operations","authors":"Tao Zhang, Shengzhi Liu, Weiwei Pan, Tian Wan, Chenhui Dong","doi":"10.1155/2022/7557216","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/7557216","url":null,"abstract":"Nuclear power, as a low-carbon, stable, and efficient energy, plays an important role in replacing fossil fuels in the development of a globally sustainable energy system. However, nuclear power has deviated from the path to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations. The path of sustainable nuclear power for China was proposed based on an analysis of the development of global nuclear power and the situation in China, using advanced operation concepts and intelligent collaboration technology to change the labor-centered operation mode. It serves as a model for other countries with a labor-centered nuclear power operation mode and an aging society seeking to achieve carbon neutrality through the use of nuclear power around the world.","PeriodicalId":21629,"journal":{"name":"Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42778484","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gha-Young Kim, Sung-Wook Kim, Junhyuk Jang, S. Yoon, Jin-Seop Kim
{"title":"Investigation of Early Corrosion Behavior of Canister Candidate Materials in Oxic Groundwater by the EQCM Method","authors":"Gha-Young Kim, Sung-Wook Kim, Junhyuk Jang, S. Yoon, Jin-Seop Kim","doi":"10.1155/2022/4582625","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/4582625","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigated the corrosion mass changes of canister candidate materials (Cu, Ni, Ti, SS304) in an oxic groundwater solution using the electrochemical quartz crystal microbalance method in order to estimate corrosion thickness. The materials were immersed in naturally aerated groundwater with and without the addition of chloride ions to observe the mass changes as well as the open-circuit potential (corrosion potential). In the oxic groundwater solution, Ni, Ti, and SS304 exhibited negligible mass changes, indicating their insusceptibility to general corrosion. In contrast, the Cu electrode exhibited a relatively significant mass change (63.8 ng/cm2 for 60 h), and the maximum corrosion thickness was estimated to be approximately 0.1 μm/yr. In the presence of chloride ions, the Ni and Ti electrodes did not reveal demonstrate any significant changes, whereas the SS304 electrode was slightly increased compared to an absence of chloride ions. A lower mass change occurred when the Cu electrode was immersed in the chloride-containing groundwater solution compared with the absence of chlorides because the dissolution of Cu as \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 CuCl\u0000 \u0000 2\u0000 −\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 was involved in Cu2O formation.","PeriodicalId":21629,"journal":{"name":"Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41857504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Feasibility Study on the Initial Kartini Reactor Core Using Plate Type Fuel Elements","authors":"Argo Satrio Wicaksono, S. Takeda, T. Kitada","doi":"10.1155/2022/9629413","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/9629413","url":null,"abstract":"The plate type fuel element conversion is proposed to solve a supply problem of TRIGA standard rod type fresh fuel in the long term and to extend the lifetime by reducing the dependence of buying imported elements. The plate type fuel is an alternative since the Indonesian industry has been able to produce such fuel elements. The change of core configuration is expected to improve the reactor performance for irradiation facilities and fuel element lifetime. The SRAC2006 is used to perform neutronic calculations while the nuclear fuel lifetime is calculated by SWAT. This study begins with performing a core properties comparison of UZrH1.6 as the current fuel material and U3Si2-Al as the fuel material candidate. The results show that the Kartini reactor core is possible to load U3Si2-Al as the fuel material and makes higher excess reactivity compared to the current fuel material. Furthermore, U3Si2-Al in the plate type element geometry is variedly arranged in the new reactor core configuration to optimize the neutronic core parameters. The new core configuration is composed of 10 standard fuel elements, 4 fuel control elements, and the graphite material baffle that is located between the active core and annular reflector for serves as an additional reflector. The configuration produced sufficient core excess reactivity and adequate shutdown margin. It also produced negative temperature feedback reactivity and power peaking factor that fulfilled the safety requirements. Improvement of new reactor core performance was obtained by more irradiation facilities, higher thermal neutron flux, and longer maximum estimated burn up compared to the current core configuration.","PeriodicalId":21629,"journal":{"name":"Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44445744","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Study of Dosimetric Characteristics of the XHA600D Medical Linear Accelerator Based on a Monte Carlo Code","authors":"Ningyu Wang, Fengjie Cui, Shaoxian Gu, Chuou Yin, Shengyuan Zhang, Jinyou Hu, Yunzhu Cai, Zhangwen Wu, Jun Wang, Chengjun Gou","doi":"10.1155/2022/7712498","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/7712498","url":null,"abstract":"By investigating the influence of initial electrons on dosimetric characteristics, reasonable incident electron parameters for the nominal 6 MV photon beam of the XHA600D accelerator are finally established, i.e., a 6 MeV monoenergetic electron beam with a radial intensity FWHM of 2.5 mm and an angular divergency of 0.15°. Based on reasonable initial parameters, Percentage Depth Doses (PDDs), Off-Axis Ratios (OARs), total scatter factors, beam qualities, and penumbra widths of both flatteningfilter (FF) and flattening-filter-free (FFF) beams for fields ranging from 4 × 4 to 30 × 30 cm2 are simulated systematically with EGSnrc codes. Not only the simulated dosimetric properties are in excellent agreement with the measurements, but also the dosimetric discrepancies between FF and FFF beams are consistent with the laws of previous studies on other accelerators. Therefore, reasonable incident electron parameters are able to accurately verify the performance of the XHA600D accelerator and can be used for further dosimetry research.","PeriodicalId":21629,"journal":{"name":"Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41477647","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Research on Radionuclide Diffusion Mechanism in the Ocean and Emergency Response under Oceanic Radioactive Events","authors":"Zichao Li, Rong-chang Chen, Chen Liu, Qingqing Xue, Zhixia Wang, Tao Zhou","doi":"10.1155/2022/6365560","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/6365560","url":null,"abstract":"On March 11, 2011, a serious radionuclide leakage accident occurred at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, and a large number of radionuclides were released, causing serious pollution to the ocean environment. On August 25, 2021, Japan announced the overall plan for the discharge of radioactive sewage from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the ocean, and the discharge will begin around the spring of 2023. All operational and under-construction nuclear power plants in China are distributed in coastal areas presently. In case of a nuclear leakage accident, radionuclides will diffuse through the ocean and pollute the ecological environment. The study of radionuclide diffusion mechanism in the ocean and emergency response plays an important role in accident mitigation under oceanic radioactive events. A radionuclide diffusion model in the ocean was established and the radionuclide diffusion mechanism in the ocean was analyzed. And then a prediction and monitoring system of radionuclide diffusion in the ocean was proposed. The results show that the short-term radionuclide diffusion is mainly influenced by the source term, flow field and decay of 131I, and the degree of influence decreases in turn. On the whole, influences of the flow field and 131I decay are weakened during the long-term diffusion. At the same time, the influence of 137Cs decay begins to be obvious and the influence of suspended matter is increasing. The influence of ocean organisms is always small. Problems of scientific prediction and protection were analyzed, and the emergency response scheme was given. It is of great significance to improve the capacity of emergency response for oceanic radioactive events.","PeriodicalId":21629,"journal":{"name":"Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48144761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Research and Analysis on Assembly Methodology for the Fusion Blanket System","authors":"Ruonan Zhang, Jiazhu Li, Shuling Xu, Qigang Wu, Dawei Yu, Qiankun Man","doi":"10.1155/2022/4850072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/4850072","url":null,"abstract":"In the development process of the blanket system, assembly design is quite important, and suitable systematic methodologies are required. As we know, the CFETR machine and the associated fusion components are not usually mass-produced large-scale products, but highly customized machines which are still in the design phase. Appropriate assembly methodology plays an important role in fulfilling the function of the fusion machine. This paper has investigated some universal assembly methods for similar complex products. Two preferred methods of design-for-assembly (DFA) and product-process hierarchical modeling (PPHM) have been analyzed and improved taking the fusion blanket system as a study case. The overall process of the blanket system was studied including the stages of design, assembly, and overview of the blanket system hierarchy structure. The two newly proposed methods aim to clarify a probably feasible assembly method for the blanket system, though it is still in the engineering design stage. Case studies of the two favorable assembly methods can be good references to demonstrate and analyze the advantages of DFA and PPHM for decision-making in each product development phase.","PeriodicalId":21629,"journal":{"name":"Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46358004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hong Wang, Wenhua Wang, Runcheng He, Changshou Hong, Jin Wang, Xiangyang Li, Yong Liu
{"title":"Experimental Study on Unsteady Radon Exhalation from the Overburden Layer of the Uranium Mill Tailings Pond under Rainfall","authors":"Hong Wang, Wenhua Wang, Runcheng He, Changshou Hong, Jin Wang, Xiangyang Li, Yong Liu","doi":"10.1155/2022/9366056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/9366056","url":null,"abstract":"In order to find out radon reduction performance of the overburden layer on uranium mill tailings (UMTs) pond beach surface after rainfall, the rainfall simulation experiment of the overburden layer was carried out with the self-developed equipment. Based on the radon migration model of the overburden layer on the UMTs pond beach surface, the change rule of radon exhalation in four types of compactness of the overburden layer within 120 hours after rainfall was studied, and the corresponding moisture content was also analyzed. The results show that the radon concentration in the overburden layer of UMTs increases nonlinearly; the dynamic change in moisture content of the overburden layer on the beach surface leads to the unsteady radon exhalation. The variation of radon exhalation shows three stages: increase, linear decrease, and stability tendency. After rainfall, radon exhalation rate increases due to water vapor and there is free radon seepage in pores. With the decrease of free radon production rate, radon exhalation rate gradually decreases until it reaches stability again. When the thickness of the overburden layer reduces, the porosity decreases with the increase in compactness of the overburden layer. While the decrease in radon reduction is more obvious, the less time it takes for radon exhalation to vary from unstable to stable overburden after rainfall.","PeriodicalId":21629,"journal":{"name":"Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49353527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}