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Chapter 2 Systems of BWR Nuclear Power Plants

  1. Fuel Handling and Storage System

The shape of nuclear fuel pellets remains unchanged by burn up. This distinguishes nuclear fuels from fossil fuels. General processes from manufacturing to final treatment of nuclear fuels can be outlined as follows.

  1. Manufacturing at nuclear fuel manufacturing facilities and shipment from there

  2. Acceptance inspections at a nuclear power plant

  3. Transfer to the new fuel storage facility

  4. Fuel loading and burn up

  5. Retrieval of spent fuel from the reactor

  6. Cooling and storage in a spent fuel storage pool

  7. Transportation in a cask to a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant

This section is limited to the fuel handling and storage system in nuclear power plants.

  1. Spent fuel storage pool

The spent fuel storage pool (also called the spent fuel pool) is located on the top floor of the reactor building and is connected to the reactor well

through the pool gate as shown in Figure 2.8.11. The spent fuel pool is lined with stainless steel. Spent fuel assemblies are put into the racks fixed on the pool floor. The spent fuel pool is filled with sufficient water to shield radiation when moving fuel assemblies in and out of the pool, and to cool the spent fuel. The spent fuel assemblies in the storage pool are arranged in a design to prevent criticality (the neutron effective multiplication factor is less than 0.95). The pipes connected to the pool are arranged above the level of the stored fuel in order to prevent water drain from the pool in case of a pipe rupture. Although each plant has a different pool capacity, the pool capacity is generally about 300% of the reactor core inventory when using high density racks.

  1. Cask pit

Spent fuel assemblies are packaged into casks (cask empty weight: about 100 tons) and transported to a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant after they are cooled in the on-site spent fuel pool for an appropriate period. In order to assure safety during the handling of heavy casks, a part of the fuel storage pool is exclusively reserved for the cask pit

refueling machine

equipment lay down pool gale

(operating floor)

reactor well

reactor well diffuser

reactor pressure vessel

control rod storage hanger

fuel grabbing

device adjusting pic \

14Oton reactor building overhead crane main hook

fuel pool gate.

steam dryer

Ph shield

(bottom of fuel handle)

fuel assembly

control rod storage rack

spent fuel

storage pool

Figure 2.8.11 Outline of spent fuel storage pool

equipment lay down pool

dummy fuel

jig crane

operating platform

sump pit

work table

fuel pool diffuser

blade guide X spent fuel

storage rack storage rack

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