TY - GEN
T1 - Graphite Component Testing on the Load Capacity of the Dowel-Brick Structure in HTR-PM
AU - Kunz, Jay F.
AU - Mahar, James M.
AU - Giraud, Kellen M.
AU - Myers, C. W.
PY - 2012/7/30
Y1 - 2012/7/30
N2 - Siting of nuclear power plants in an underground nuclear park has been proposed by the authors in many previous publications, first focusing on how the present 1200 to 1600 MW-electric light water reactors could be sited underground, then including reprocessing and fuel manufacturing facilities, as well as high level permanent waste storage. Recently the focus has been on siting multiple small modular reactor systems. The recent incident at the Fukushima Daiichi site has prompted the authors to consider what the effects of a natural disaster such as the Japan earthquake and subsequent tsunami would have had if these reactors had been located underground. This paper addresses how the reactors might have remained operable - assuming the designs we previously proposed - and what lessons from the Fukushima incident can be learned for underground nuclear power plant designs. Copyright © 2012 by ASME.
AB - Siting of nuclear power plants in an underground nuclear park has been proposed by the authors in many previous publications, first focusing on how the present 1200 to 1600 MW-electric light water reactors could be sited underground, then including reprocessing and fuel manufacturing facilities, as well as high level permanent waste storage. Recently the focus has been on siting multiple small modular reactor systems. The recent incident at the Fukushima Daiichi site has prompted the authors to consider what the effects of a natural disaster such as the Japan earthquake and subsequent tsunami would have had if these reactors had been located underground. This paper addresses how the reactors might have remained operable - assuming the designs we previously proposed - and what lessons from the Fukushima incident can be learned for underground nuclear power plant designs. Copyright © 2012 by ASME.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84890038383
UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/276ebb99-c575-3540-85ce-31c694a27369/
U2 - 10.1115/ICONE20-POWER2012-54945
DO - 10.1115/ICONE20-POWER2012-54945
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84890038383
SN - 9780791844960
T3 - International Conference on Nuclear Engineering, Proceedings, ICONE
SP - 449
EP - 455
BT - 2012 20th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering and the ASME 2012 Power Conference, ICONE 2012-POWER 2012
PB - American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
T2 - 2012 20th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering and the ASME 2012 Power Conference, ICONE 2012-POWER 2012
Y2 - 30 July 2012 through 3 August 2012
ER -