Abstract:
Provided is a passive containment spray system including: a spray coolant storage unit that communicates with a containment accommodating a reactor vessel and maintains equilibrium of pressure between the spray coolant storage unit and the containment; a spray pipe that is installed within the containment in such a manner that when an accident occurs, a coolant supplied from the spray coolant storage unit is sprayed into the containment through the spray pipe due to an increase in pressure within the containment; and a connection pipe one end of which is inserted into the spray coolant storage unit in such a manner as to provide a flow path along which the coolant flows and the other end of which is connected to the spray pipe in such a manner that the coolant is passively supplied to the spray pipe through the connection pipe therein.
Abstract:
A passive safety injection system includes a containment, a reactor installed in the containment, safety injection tanks installed in the containment, a safety injection line between the reactor or a reactor coolant system and each of the safety injection tanks to guide water, which is stored in the safety injection tank, into the reactor when a water level in the reactor is reduced due to a loss of coolant accident, and a pressure balance line between the reactor or the reactor coolant system and the safety injection tank to guide high-temperature steam from the reactor into the safety injection tank upon the loss of coolant accident. The safety injection line has an orifice and a check valve thereon, and the pressure balance line has an orifice and isolation valves thereon. The water in the safety injection tank stably flows into the reactor for many hours.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a plate heat exchanger and provides a heat exchanger and a nuclear power plant comprising same, the heat exchanger comprising: a plate unit having multiple plates overlapping one another; a flow path unit, which forms flow paths having fluids flowing therein by processing at least parts of the respective plates; and a detection flow path formed between the multiple plates so as to allow the fluids leaking from the flow paths to flow thereinto and formed so as to detect the leakage of the fluids from the flow paths.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a passive residual heat removal system and an atomic power plant comprising the same, the passive heat removal system comprising: a plate-type heat exchanger for causing heat exchange between a primary system fluid or a secondary system fluid which, in order to remove sensible heat from an atomic reactor cooling material system and residual heat from a reactor core, has received the sensible heat and the residual heat, and a cooling fluid which has been introduced from outside of a containment unit; and circulation piping for connecting the atomic reactor cooling material system to the plate-type heat exchanger, thereby forming a circulation channel of the primary system fluid, or connecting a steam generator, which is arranged at the boundary between the primary and secondary systems, to the plate-type heat exchanger, thereby forming a circulation channel of the secondary system fluid.
Abstract:
The present invention provides passive safety equipment, comprising: a cooling part formed to cool a first fluid, which is emitted from a reactor coolant system or a steam generator, and a second fluid in a housing; and a circulation induction sprayer which is formed to spray the first fluid emitted from the reactor coolant system or the steam generator into the cooling part, has at least part thereof open to the inside of the housing such that the second fluid flows thereinto according to a drop in pressure caused by the spraying of the first fluid, and sprays the second fluid with the inflown first fluid.
Abstract:
The present disclosure provides a cooling system of an emergency cooling tank, which enables long-term cooling without refilling cooling water, in case of the change in a quantity of heat transferred to the emergency cooling tank according to a lapse of time upon an occurrence of an accident of a nuclear reactor, and a nuclear power plant having the same. The emergency cooling tank cooling system includes an emergency cooling tank configured to store cooling water therein, the cooling water receiving heat, transferred from a nuclear reactor or a containment, when an accident occurs in the nuclear reactor, a heat exchanging device installed to be exposed to an outside of the emergency cooling tank to operate in air, and configured to externally emit heat by way of a heat exchange between fluid in the emergency cooling tank and the air such that the operation of the emergency cooling tank is continued even without refilling the cooling water, and an opening and closing unit installed at an upper portion of the emergency cooling tank to be located higher than a water level of the cooling water, and configured to be open by a flow of the fluid generated by an evaporation of the cooling water, the flow being formed due to a pressure difference from external air at pressure higher than a preset pressure, such that some of the fluid is externally emitted when a heat load exceeding a cooling capacity of the emergency cooling tank is transferred.
Abstract:
The present disclosure may disclose a multi stage safety injection device, including a safety injection tank formed to contain coolant to be injected into a reactor vessel by a gravitational head of water when an accident occurs in which the pressure or water level of the reactor vessel is decreased, a pressure balance line connected to the reactor vessel and safety injection tank to form a pressure balance between the reactor vessel and the safety injection tank, and a set of safety injection lines connected to the safety injection tank and the reactor vessel to inject coolant to the reactor vessel in a pressure balance state between the reactor vessel and the safety injection tank, and connected to the safety injection tank with different heights to reduce a flow rate of coolant injected into the reactor vessel step by step according to the water level reduction of the safety injection tank in order to inject coolant to the reactor vessel at multi stages.
Abstract:
A passive safety system includes a containment, a reactor in the containment, a plurality of safety injection tanks connected with the reactor and having water and nitrogen gas to supply water thereof into the reactor through a safety injection line communicating to the first safety injection line upon a loss of coolant accident, a plurality of core makeup tanks connected with the reactor to supply water thereof into the reactor through a second safety injection line communicating to a safety injection line upon the loss of coolant accident, and a plurality of passive residual heat removal systems to remove residual heat from the reactor upon the loss of coolant accident or a non-loss of coolant accident. The water in each of the safety injection tank is stably supplied to the reactor for many hours by a differential head resulting from gravity or gas pressure.