Nuclear Power Plant Mechanical Component Flooding Fragility Experiments Status

Technical Report · Mon Jul 24 00:00:00 EDT 2017

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1376902· OSTI ID:1376902

Pope, C. L. ^[1]; Savage, B. ^[1]; Johnson, B. ^[1]; Muchmore, C. ^[1]; Nichols, L. ^[1]; Roberts, G. ^[1]; Ryan, E. ^[1]; Suresh, S. ^[1]; Tahhan, A. ^[1]; Tuladhar, R. ^[1]; Wells, A. ^[1]; Smith, C. ^[2]

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1. Idaho State Univ., Pocatello, ID (United States)
2. Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)

This report describes progress on Nuclear Power Plant mechanical component flooding fragility experiments and supporting research. The progress includes execution of full scale fragility experiments using hollow-core doors, design of improvements to the Portal Evaluation Tank, equipment procurement and initial installation of PET improvements, designation of experiments exploiting the improved PET capabilities, fragility mathematical model development, Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamic simulations, wave impact simulation device research, and pipe rupture mechanics research.

• Research Organization: Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE)
• DOE Contract Number: AC07-05ID14517
• OSTI ID: 1376902
• Report Number(s): INL/EXT-17-42728; M2LW-17IN0702053
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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