Life extension of elevated-temperature reactors considering actual operating conditions
Abstract
Many reactors have experienced operating conditions less severe than those specified in the design. Their actual operating conditions may involve fewer or less severe transients, lower operating temperatures, or a combination of these. Thus the actual operating conditions become important considerations in efforts to extend the life of reactor components. If the number of transients experienced is fewer than the number specified in the design, the actual transients must be reconstructed to determine extended life. When operating temperature is below 800 [degrees]F, fatigue damage becomes the controlling factor in life assessment. At operating temperatures above 800 [degrees]F (e.g., breeder reactors), creep damage becomes another controlling factor because residual stresses have a longer time for relaxation, a fact that will reduce creep damage. This study presents an approach to assessing the life of breeder reactor components when the actual transients are fewer in number than those specified in the design. It also discusses the sensitivity of creep-fatigue damage in such factors when actual operating temperatures and the actual severity of transients fall below the design specifications.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Westinghouse Hanford Co., Richland, WA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 6633337
- Report Number(s):
- WHC-SA-1695; CONF-930702-6
ON: DE93006886
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC06-87RL10930
- Resource Type:
- Conference
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Pressure vessel and piping conference, Denver, CO (United States), 25-29 Jul 1993
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 21 SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS; LMFBR TYPE REACTORS; REACTOR COMPONENTS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; SERVICE LIFE; CREEP; FATIGUE; REACTOR OPERATION; STRESSES; TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; TRANSIENTS; BREEDER REACTORS; EPITHERMAL REACTORS; FAST REACTORS; FBR TYPE REACTORS; LIFETIME; LIQUID METAL COOLED REACTORS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; NUCLEAR FACILITIES; OPERATION; POWER PLANTS; REACTORS; THERMAL POWER PLANTS; 210500* - Power Reactors, Breeding
Citation Formats
Ziada, H H. Life extension of elevated-temperature reactors considering actual operating conditions. United States: N. p., 1993.
Web.
Ziada, H H. Life extension of elevated-temperature reactors considering actual operating conditions. United States.
Ziada, H H. 1993.
"Life extension of elevated-temperature reactors considering actual operating conditions". United States.
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title = {Life extension of elevated-temperature reactors considering actual operating conditions},
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abstractNote = {Many reactors have experienced operating conditions less severe than those specified in the design. Their actual operating conditions may involve fewer or less severe transients, lower operating temperatures, or a combination of these. Thus the actual operating conditions become important considerations in efforts to extend the life of reactor components. If the number of transients experienced is fewer than the number specified in the design, the actual transients must be reconstructed to determine extended life. When operating temperature is below 800 [degrees]F, fatigue damage becomes the controlling factor in life assessment. At operating temperatures above 800 [degrees]F (e.g., breeder reactors), creep damage becomes another controlling factor because residual stresses have a longer time for relaxation, a fact that will reduce creep damage. This study presents an approach to assessing the life of breeder reactor components when the actual transients are fewer in number than those specified in the design. It also discusses the sensitivity of creep-fatigue damage in such factors when actual operating temperatures and the actual severity of transients fall below the design specifications.},
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year = {Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1993},
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