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Shippingport Atomic Power Station Operating Experience, Developments and Future Plans; La centrale nucleaire de Shippingport, experience de son fonctionnement et plans pour l'avenir; Shippingportskaya atomnaya ehlektrostantsij, opyt ehkspluatatsii, usovershenstvovaniya i plany na budushchee; Central nucleoelectrica de Shippingport; experiencia adquirida con su explotacton y programa de desarrollo

Abstract

This paper describes and evaluates five years of operation and test of the Shippingport Atomic Power Station and discusses the current technical developments and future plans of the Shippingport programme. This programme is directed towards development of the basic technology of light-water reactors to provide the basis for potential reduction in the costs of nuclear power. The Shippingport reactor plant has operated for over five years and has been found to integrate readily into a utility system either as a base load or peak load unit. Plant component performance has been reliable. There have been no problems in contamination or waste disposal. Access to primary coolant components for maintenance has been good, demonstrating the integrity of fuel elements. Each of the three refuelling operations performed since start-up of Shippingport has required successively less time to accomplish. Recently, the third seed was refuelled in 32 working days, about one quarter the time required for the first refuelling. The formal requirements of personnel training, written administrative procedures, power plant manuals, etc., which have been a vital factor in the successful implementation of the Shippingport programme, are described. The results obtained from the comprehensive test programme carried out at Shippingport are compared with  More>>
Authors:
Feinroth, H.; [1]  Oldham, G. M.; [2]  Stiefel, J. T. [3] 
  1. Division of Reactor Development, United States Atomic Energy Commission, Washington, DC (United States)
  2. Shippingport Atomic Power Station, Duquesne Light Company, Pittsburgh, PA (United States)
  3. Bettis Atomic Power.Labora Tory, Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA (United States)
Publication Date:
Oct 15, 1963
Product Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: Conference on Operating Experience with Power Reactors, Vienna (Austria), 4-8 Jun 1963; Other Information: 45 figs., 5 tabs., 19 refs.; Related Information: In: Operating Experience with Power Reactors. Proceedings of the Conference on Operating Experience with Power Reactors. Vol. I| 540 p.
Subject:
21 SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS; ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES; CONTAMINATION; CONTROL ELEMENTS; CORROSION; DECONTAMINATION; FLUID FLOW; FUEL ELEMENTS; HEAT TRANSFER; PEAK LOAD; PERSONNEL; POWER DENSITY; PRIMARY COOLANT CIRCUITS; REACTOR CORES; REACTOR FUELING; REACTOR MAINTENANCE; REACTOR OPERATION; REACTOR STABILITY; REACTOR START-UP; SHIPPINGPORT REACTOR; WASTE DISPOSAL
OSTI ID:
22106414
Research Organizations:
International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Austria)
Country of Origin:
IAEA
Language:
English
Other Identifying Numbers:
Other: ISSN 0074-1884; TRN: XA13R0389064235
Submitting Site:
INIS
Size:
page(s) 209-282
Announcement Date:
Jun 20, 2013

Citation Formats

Feinroth, H., Oldham, G. M., and Stiefel, J. T. Shippingport Atomic Power Station Operating Experience, Developments and Future Plans; La centrale nucleaire de Shippingport, experience de son fonctionnement et plans pour l'avenir; Shippingportskaya atomnaya ehlektrostantsij, opyt ehkspluatatsii, usovershenstvovaniya i plany na budushchee; Central nucleoelectrica de Shippingport; experiencia adquirida con su explotacton y programa de desarrollo. IAEA: N. p., 1963. Web.
Feinroth, H., Oldham, G. M., & Stiefel, J. T. Shippingport Atomic Power Station Operating Experience, Developments and Future Plans; La centrale nucleaire de Shippingport, experience de son fonctionnement et plans pour l'avenir; Shippingportskaya atomnaya ehlektrostantsij, opyt ehkspluatatsii, usovershenstvovaniya i plany na budushchee; Central nucleoelectrica de Shippingport; experiencia adquirida con su explotacton y programa de desarrollo. IAEA.
Feinroth, H., Oldham, G. M., and Stiefel, J. T. 1963. "Shippingport Atomic Power Station Operating Experience, Developments and Future Plans; La centrale nucleaire de Shippingport, experience de son fonctionnement et plans pour l'avenir; Shippingportskaya atomnaya ehlektrostantsij, opyt ehkspluatatsii, usovershenstvovaniya i plany na budushchee; Central nucleoelectrica de Shippingport; experiencia adquirida con su explotacton y programa de desarrollo." IAEA.
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title = {Shippingport Atomic Power Station Operating Experience, Developments and Future Plans; La centrale nucleaire de Shippingport, experience de son fonctionnement et plans pour l'avenir; Shippingportskaya atomnaya ehlektrostantsij, opyt ehkspluatatsii, usovershenstvovaniya i plany na budushchee; Central nucleoelectrica de Shippingport; experiencia adquirida con su explotacton y programa de desarrollo}
author = {Feinroth, H., Oldham, G. M., and Stiefel, J. T.}
abstractNote = {This paper describes and evaluates five years of operation and test of the Shippingport Atomic Power Station and discusses the current technical developments and future plans of the Shippingport programme. This programme is directed towards development of the basic technology of light-water reactors to provide the basis for potential reduction in the costs of nuclear power. The Shippingport reactor plant has operated for over five years and has been found to integrate readily into a utility system either as a base load or peak load unit. Plant component performance has been reliable. There have been no problems in contamination or waste disposal. Access to primary coolant components for maintenance has been good, demonstrating the integrity of fuel elements. Each of the three refuelling operations performed since start-up of Shippingport has required successively less time to accomplish. Recently, the third seed was refuelled in 32 working days, about one quarter the time required for the first refuelling. The formal requirements of personnel training, written administrative procedures, power plant manuals, etc., which have been a vital factor in the successful implementation of the Shippingport programme, are described. The results obtained from the comprehensive test programme carried out at Shippingport are compared with calculations, and good agreement has been obtained. Reactor core performance, plant stability, and response to load changes, fuel element and control rod performance, long-term effects such as corrosion and radiation level build-up, component performance, etc., are discussed in this paper. The principal objective of the current and future programmes of the Shippingport Project in advancing the basic technology of water-cooled reactors is discussed. This programme includes the continued operation of the Shippingport plant, and the development, design, manufacture and test operation of a long-life, highpower density second core - Core 2. At its design rating of 150 MW(e) gross and a first seed life of 10.000 effective full power hours (EFPH), Core 2 will have five and a half times the design energy output and twice the power density of Core 1. The Core 2 design is described and associated major developments in reactor physics, metallurgy, heat transfer and fluid flow, and fuel element manufacture, are summarized. Plans for decontamination of the reactor plant and for performing modifications to the plant in connection with the installation of the higher rated Core 2 are described. (author) [French] Les auteurs font le bilan des cinq annees de fonctionnement et d'essai de la centrale nucleaire de Shippingport; ils examinent les progres techniques actuels et l'avenir du programme de Shippingport. Ce programme vise a mettre au point la technologie fondamentale des reacteurs a eau legere pour permettre une reduction du prix de revient de l'energie d'origine nucleaire. La centrale nucleaire de Shippingport fonctionne depuis plus de 5 ans et s'est integree facilement dans un reseau d'interconnexion comme centrale de base ou comme centrale d'appoint. Les divers elements de la centrale se sont reveles d'un fonctionnement sur. Il n'y a pas eu de probleme de contamination ni d'elimination des dechets. On peut acceder facilement aux elements du circuit primaire de refroidissement pour l'entretien et, ce faisant, on a constate que les cartouches de combustible etaient intactes. Chacune des trois operations de rechargement effectuees depuis le demarrage de la centrale a pris moins de temps que la precedente. Recemment, la troisieme charge de combustible enrichi a ete mise en place en 32 journees de travail, soit environ le quart du temps necessaire pour le premier rechargement. Les auteurs exposent les conditions auxquelles doit satisfaire la formation du personnel et donnent un apercu des instructions ecrites en matiere d'administration, d'exploitation, etc., qui sont autant de facteurs essentiels du succes du programme de Shippingport. Les resultats fournis par la serie complete des essais realises a Shippingport sont compares avec les calculs; la concordance est satisfaisante. Les auteurs examinent aussi les performances du cceur du reacteur, la stabilite de l'installation et sa reponse aux variations de charge, les performances des cartouches de combustible et des barres de controle, les effets a long terme tels que la corrosion et la radioexposition, le fonctionnement des divers elements constitutifs, etc. Les auteurs examinent le principal objectif des programmes actuel et futur de Shippingport pour le developpement de la technique fondamentale des reacteurs refroidis a l'eau. On prevoit notamment de continuer l'exploitation de la centrale et d'etudier, de fabriquer et d'essayer un deuxieme coeur de reacteur a longue duree de Vie et de grande puissance specifique. Avec une puissance nominale brute de 150 MWe et une duree de vie equivalant a 10 000 h de marche a pleine puissance pour la premiere charge de combustible enrichi, le coeur No. 2 aura cinq fois et demie la production d'energie prevue pour le cceur Ne 1 et deux fois sa puissance specifique. Les auteurs decrivent le coeur No. 2 et indiquent brievement les principaux progres qui ont ete realises a cet egard dans les domaines de la physique des reacteurs, de la metallurgie, du transfert de chaleur, de la circulation du fluide caloporteur et de la fabrication des cartouches de combustible. Ils exposent les plans de decontamination de la centrale nucleaire et les modifications qu'entrafnera l'installation du coeur No. 2 plus puissant. (author) [Spanish] Los autores exponen y analizan los resultados obtenidos en cinco aflos de ensayo y explotacion de la central nucleoelectrica de Shippingport y examinan el programa de actividades en curso y los planes para el futuro. Con ese programa se proyecta perfeccionar la tecnologia basica de los reactores de agua ligera, a fin de contribuir a la reduccion de los costos de la energia nuclear. La central nuclear de Shippingport viene funcionando desde hace mas de 5 aflos y se ha comprobado que su incorporacion a una red de distribucion, sea como central para carga basica o como central para carga de cresta no plantea mayores dificultades. Los distintos componentes de la central se han comportado en forma satisfactoria. No ha habido problemas de contaminacion ni de evacuacion de desechos. Ha sido facil el acceso a las partes del circuito primario de refrigeracion, y se verifico el buen estado de los elementos combustibles. Cada una de las tres operaciones de reabastecimiento efectuadas desde la iniciacion de la marcha exigio menos tiempo que la precedente. La tercera carga de material fertil se realizo recientemente en 32 dias de trabajo, o sea menos de un cuarto del tiempo que exigio la primera. Detallan los autores las normas impuestas para la formacion de personal, las instrucciones escritas en materia de procedimientos administrativos, los manuales de trabajo de la central, etc. que han contribuido decisivamente al exito de la ejecucion del programa de Shippingport. Se comparan en la memoria los resultadas del extenso programa de ensayos aplicado en Shippingport con los calculos teoricos y se comprueba que concuerdan satisfactoriamente. Se examinan tambien el comportamiento del cuerpo del reactor, la estabilidad de la central y su respuesta a las fluctuaciones de la carga, el comportamiento de los elementos combustibles y de las barras de control, los efectos a largo plazo (corrosion, aumento de la intensidad de radiacion), el comportamiento de las diversas partes de la central, etc. Se examina en la memoria el objetivo principal del programa actual y futuro de Shippingport, para el desarrollo de la tecnologia basica de los reactores refrigerados con agua. Dicho programa comprende la explotacion de la central de Shippingport en forma continua, y el proyecto, diseflo, fabricacion y explotacion experimental de un nuevo cuerpo de reactor de prolongada duracion y elevada densidad de potencia, el denominado cuerpo No. 2. Con una potencia nominal bruta de 150 MW(e) y una duracion equivalente a 10 000 h de funcionamiento a plena potencia, el cuerpo No. 2 dara una produccion de energia 5,5 mayor que la del cuerpo No. 1 y su potencia especifica sera el doble de la de este ultimo. Se describen las caracteristicas de diseflo del cuerpo No. 2 y se resumen los principales adelantos en materia de fisica de reactores, metalurgia, transmision de calor, circulacion de fluidos, y elaboracion de elementos combustibles. Por ultimo, se describen los planes para la descontaminacion de la central nuclear y para introducir en la misma las modificaciones exigidas por la instalacion del cuerpo No. 2, de mayor potencia. (author) [Russian] Daetsya otsenka pyati godam ehkspluatatsii i ispytanie Shippingportskoj ehlektrostantsii, a takzhe rassmatrivayutsya poslednie tekhnicheskie usovershenstvovaniya i programma na budushchee. Ehta programma napravlena na usovershenstvovanie osnovnoj tekhnologii reaktorov na obychnoj vode s tem; chtoby sozdat' osnovu dlya umen'sheniya v budushchem stoimosti yadernoj ehlektroehnergii. Shippingportskaya reaktornaya ustanovka, ehkspluatirovavshayasya pyat' let, priznana godnoj dlya legkogo podklyucheniya k sisteme ehnergosnabzheniya v kachestve ustanovki dlya bazovoj ili pikovoj nagruzok. Rabota komponentov ustanovki byla nadezhnoj. Ne voznikalo problem, svyazannykh s zagryazneniem ili udaleniem otkhodov. Dostup k komponentam pervichnoj sistemy okhlazhdeniya dlya ikh obsluzhivaniya 'byl khoroshim, chto pokazyvaet tselostnost' toplivnykh ehlementov. Kazhdaya iz trekh operatsij po zamene topliva v reaktore s momenta ego puska trebovala vse men'she i men'she vremeni. Nedavno byla ustanovlena tret'ya zapal'naya sborka, na chto potrebovalos' 32 rabochikh dnya, t.e. okolo odnoj chetverti vremeni, potrachennogo na pervuyu zamenu topliva. Opisany ofitsial'nye trebovaniya v otnoshenii podgotovki personala, pis'mennykh administrativnykh instruktsij, rukovodstv po ehnergeticheskoj ustanovke i t.d., chto yavilos' ochen' vazhnym faktorom v uspeshnom osushchestvlenii programmy ispytanij SHippingportskoj ehlektrostantsii. Rezul'taty ispytanij khorosho sovpadayut s raschetnymi dannymi. Rassmatrivayutsya rabota aktivnoj zony reaktora, stabil'nost' ustanovki, chuvstvitel'nost' k izmeneniyam nagruzki, rabota toplivnykh ehlementov i reguliruyushchikh sterzhnej, povyshenie takikh dlitel'nykh ehffektov, kak korroziya i intensivnost' izlucheniya, rabota komponentov i t.d. Rassmatrivaetsya osnovnaya tsel' tekushchej i budushchej programm Shippingportskogo proekta v otnoshenii usovershenstvovaniya osnovnoj tekhnologii reaktorov s vodyanym okhlazhdeniem. Ehta programma vklyuchaet prodolzhenie ehkspluatatsii Shippingportskoj ustanovki, razrabotku, konstruirovanie, izgotovlenie i opytnuyu ehkspluatatsiyu vtoroj aktivnoj zony (aktivnaya zona 2), imeyushchej dlitel'nyj srok sluzhby i vysokuyu plotnost' ehnergovydeleniya. Imeya proektnuyu ehlektricheskuyu moshchnost' brutto 150 mgvt i prodolzhitel'nost' sluzhby pervoj zapal'noj sborki 10 tys. chasov raboty na polnoj moshchnosti, aktivnaya zona 2 budet v pyat' s polovinoj raz moshchnee aktivnoj zony 1 i obladat' v dva raza bol'shej plotnost'yu ehnergovydeleniya, chem poslednyaya. Daetsya opisanie konstruktsii aktivnoj zony 2 i svyazannykh s nej osnovnykh usovershenstvovanij v fizike reaktora, metallurgii, teploperedache, podache teplonositelya i izgotovlenii toplivnykh ehlementov. Izlozheny plany v otnoshenii dezaktivatsii reaktornoj ustanovki i osushchestvleniya ee modifikatsii v svyazi s ustanovkoj bolee moshchnoj aktivnoj zony 2. (author)}
place = {IAEA}
year = {1963}
month = {Oct}
}