European Utility Requirements (EUR) Volume 3 Assessment for AP1000

Demetri, K J; Saiu, Gianfranco

Title: European Utility Requirements (EUR) Volume 3 Assessment for AP1000

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The EUR (European Utility Requirements) effort was launched in December 1991 by several European Utilities. The main objective of the EUR organization is to produce a common set of utility requirements, endorsed by major European utilities for the next generation of Light Water Reactor (LWR) nuclear power plants. In 1997 an effort was undertaken by the EUR organization to jointly develop a document which would become 'Volume 3' of the EUR. The objectives of Volume 3 are: - develop a description of the standard nuclear island designs; - assessment of design compliance with the EUR Volume 1 and 2 against these designs; - define the requirements for the specific nuclear island designs. Five subsets of EUR Volume 3, based on EUR Revision B, are already published; all of which are next generation plant designs being developed for Europe beyond 2000. They include: - EP1000 - Passive Pressurized Light Water Reactor (3-Loop, 1000 MWe); - EPR - Evolutionary Pressurized Light Water Reactor (1500 MWe); - BWR90/90+ - Evolutionary Boiling Water Reactor (1400 MWe); - ABWR - Evolutionary Boiling Water Reactor (1400 MWe); - SWR 1000 - Boiling Water Reactor With Passive Features (1000 MWe). Other subsets being developed or proposed include:more »« less

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Demetri, K J ^[1]; Saiu, Gianfranco ^[2]

Westinghouse Electric Company, P.O. Box 355, Pittsburgh, PA 15230-0355 (United States)
ANSALDO Energia S.p.A - Nuclear Division, Corso Perrone, 25, 16161 Genoa (Italy)

Publication Date:: Thu Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2004

Research Org.:: American Nuclear Society, 555 North Kensington Avenue, La Grange Park, IL 60526 (United States)

OSTI Identifier:: 21160708

Resource Type:: Conference

Resource Relation:: Conference: ICAPP'04: 2004 international congress on advances in nuclear power plants, Pittsburgh, PA (United States), 13-17 Jun 2004; Other Information: Country of input: France; 3 refs; Related Information: In: Proceedings of the 2004 international congress on advances in nuclear power plants - ICAPP'04, 2338 pages.

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 21 SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS; BORON; BWR TYPE REACTORS; DESIGN; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; LICENSING; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; PWR TYPE REACTORS

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  title        = {European Utility Requirements (EUR) Volume 3 Assessment for AP1000},

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  abstractNote = {The EUR (European Utility Requirements) effort was launched in December 1991 by several European Utilities. The main objective of the EUR organization is to produce a common set of utility requirements, endorsed by major European utilities for the next generation of Light Water Reactor (LWR) nuclear power plants. In 1997 an effort was undertaken by the EUR organization to jointly develop a document which would become 'Volume 3' of the EUR. The objectives of Volume 3 are: - develop a description of the standard nuclear island designs; - assessment of design compliance with the EUR Volume 1 and 2 against these designs; - define the requirements for the specific nuclear island designs. Five subsets of EUR Volume 3, based on EUR Revision B, are already published; all of which are next generation plant designs being developed for Europe beyond 2000. They include: - EP1000 - Passive Pressurized Light Water Reactor (3-Loop, 1000 MWe); - EPR - Evolutionary Pressurized Light Water Reactor (1500 MWe); - BWR90/90+ - Evolutionary Boiling Water Reactor (1400 MWe); - ABWR - Evolutionary Boiling Water Reactor (1400 MWe); - SWR 1000 - Boiling Water Reactor With Passive Features (1000 MWe). Other subsets being developed or proposed include: - AP1000 - Passive Pressurized Light Water Reactor (2-Loop, 1117 MWe); - VVER AES 92 - Pressurized Water Reactor With Passive Features (1000 MWe). The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the program, which will take place in 2004-2005 with the EUR group to prepare an EUR Volume 3 Subset for the AP1000 nuclear plant design. The AP1000 EUR compliance assessment, to be performed against EUR Revision C requirements, is an important step for the evaluation of the AP1000 design for application in Europe. The AP1000 relies heavily on the AP600 and has inherited design features (e.g., low boron core design) from the EP1000, for which compliance with EUR Revision B was a key design criterion. The EP1000, which also heavily relies on the AP600 design, showed very good conformance with the EUR Revision B. Therefore, it is expected that the AP1000 design will also show a good level of compliance with the EUR Revision C requirements. The AP1000 compliance assessment will make full use of AP1000 licensing documentation, EPP Phase 2 design activities and EP1000 EUR detailed compliance assessment. With reference to the EP1000, major attention will be given to the areas of difference between EUR Revision B and Revision C and the areas in which the AP1000 plant design significantly departs from the EP1000. (authors)},

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