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is used for placing and stressing tendons, and the tendon capabilities to give the required pre­stressing forces to the concrete structures are confirmed by an in-service tendon surveillance program throughout the containment vessel service life. In addition, the existence of any corrosion on the PCCV tendon steel wires can also be checked by inspections,

Since the PCCV has sufficient strength to withstand sub-atmospheric pressures, such a vacuum relief system as installed on the SCV is not employed to the PCCV design.

  1. External shield building

An external shield building is only built around the SCV, since the PCCV, by itself, performs the required shielding function and does not need any additional shielding.

  1. Function

The external shield building provides the radiation shielding function and, together with the SCV, forms the annulus space.

  1. Structure

The external shield building is a cylindrical reinforced concrete structure with a hemispherical dome, and it stands on a base slab. The internal diameter of the building is several meters larger than that of the containment vessel. In a few PWR plants, the external shield buildings are open-type structures, consisting only of cylindrical shells without domes. When this type of buildings is used, the cylindrical annulus spaces are sealed with a seal structure at the top elevation of the annulus.

  1. Annulus

i) Function

By maintaining negative pressure in the annulus, it composes a second barrier for the leakage of radioactive materials, confining radioactive materials that would leak from the containment building following accidents. To provide this function, the annulus is designed to cover all the containment vessel penetrations, including those for piping, electrical cables and ducts, and to have sufficient air-tightness to treat leakages from the containment vessel with the annulus air clean-up systems.

ii) Structure

  1. Steel containment vessel (SCV)

In the SCV plant design, the annulus sealing structure is placed between the containment cylindrical shell and the external shielding building at the elevation below the dome section to form a leak-tight annulus between the two structures.

  1. Pre-stressed concrete containment vessel (PCCV)

Since the containment structure of the PCCV provides the required shielding function, differing from the SCV, there is no external shield building, and a leak-tight annulus is formed by placing the annulus seal structure between the containment cylindrical shell and a surrounding building (Figure 3.7.3).

  1. Containment Spray System

  1. Function

The containment spray system keeps the containment pressure below its maximum working pressure, calculated on the basis of the assumption that the maximum energy postulated following an accident is released to the containment vessel as steam, and eventually the spray system will reduce the containment pressure to about the atmospheric pressure. The containment atmosphere after a LOCA is contaminated with radioactive iodine, which has escaped from the reactor coolant system. The containment spray system also functions to remove the radioactive inorganic iodine in the containment atmosphere by spraying borated water containing an iodine removal chemical, usually 30 wt% sodium hydroxide.

The containment spray system is designed to have sufficient redundancy satisfying the single failure criterion (cf. section 3.7.1). Furthermore, the containment spray system is designed to perform its required safety functions even under the conditions of the coincident occurrence of a loss of off-site power accident with the LOCA. Electric power is supplied to the system components by emergency diesel generators. The containment spray system is designed to allow routine periodical tests and inspections to confirm its system integrity and operability.

NSRA, Japan

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