Risk-informed design optimization method and application in a lead-based research reactor
Risk-informed approach has been widely applied in the safety design, regulation, and operation of nuclear reactors. It has been commonly accepted that risk-informed design optimization should be used in the innovative reactor designs to make nuclear system highly safe and reliable. In spite of the r...
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| author | Jiaqun Wang Qianglong Wang Jinrong Qiu Jin Wang Fang Wang Yazhou Li |
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| description | Risk-informed approach has been widely applied in the safety design, regulation, and operation of nuclear reactors. It has been commonly accepted that risk-informed design optimization should be used in the innovative reactor designs to make nuclear system highly safe and reliable. In spite of the risk-informed approach has been used in some advanced nuclear reactors designs, such as Westinghouse IRIS, Gen-IV sodium fast reactors and lead-based fast reactors, the process of risk-informed design of nuclear reactors is hardly to carry out when passive system reliability should be integrated in the framework. A practical method for new passive safety reactors based on probabilistic safety assessment (PSA) and passive system reliability analyze linking is proposed in this paper. New three-dimension frequency-consequence curve based on risk concept with three variables is used in this method. The proposed method has been applied to the determination optimization of design options selection in a 10 MWth lead-based research reactor(LR) to obtain one optimized system design in conceptual design stage, using the integrated reliability and probabilistic safety assessment program RiskA, and the computation resources and time consumption in this process was demonstrated reasonable and acceptable. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b91c2582017e4b0eaa084462bf41995e2023-06-05T04:12:42ZengElsevierNuclear Engineering and Technology1738-57332023-06-0155620472052Risk-informed design optimization method and application in a lead-based research reactorJiaqun Wang0Qianglong Wang1Jinrong Qiu2Jin Wang3Fang Wang4Yazhou Li5Wuhan 2nd Ship Design and Research Institute, Hubei, Wuhan, 430064, China; Corresponding author.Wuhan 2nd Ship Design and Research Institute, Hubei, Wuhan, 430064, China; Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shanxi, 710049, ChinaWuhan 2nd Ship Design and Research Institute, Hubei, Wuhan, 430064, ChinaInternational Academy of Neutron Science, Shandong, Qingdao, 266199, ChinaInternational Academy of Neutron Science, Shandong, Qingdao, 266199, ChinaInternational Academy of Neutron Science, Shandong, Qingdao, 266199, China; Corresponding AuthorRisk-informed approach has been widely applied in the safety design, regulation, and operation of nuclear reactors. It has been commonly accepted that risk-informed design optimization should be used in the innovative reactor designs to make nuclear system highly safe and reliable. In spite of the risk-informed approach has been used in some advanced nuclear reactors designs, such as Westinghouse IRIS, Gen-IV sodium fast reactors and lead-based fast reactors, the process of risk-informed design of nuclear reactors is hardly to carry out when passive system reliability should be integrated in the framework. A practical method for new passive safety reactors based on probabilistic safety assessment (PSA) and passive system reliability analyze linking is proposed in this paper. New three-dimension frequency-consequence curve based on risk concept with three variables is used in this method. The proposed method has been applied to the determination optimization of design options selection in a 10 MWth lead-based research reactor(LR) to obtain one optimized system design in conceptual design stage, using the integrated reliability and probabilistic safety assessment program RiskA, and the computation resources and time consumption in this process was demonstrated reasonable and acceptable.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1738573323001146Risk-informed designProbabilistic safety assessmentLead-based research reactorRiskA |
| spellingShingle | Jiaqun Wang Qianglong Wang Jinrong Qiu Jin Wang Fang Wang Yazhou Li Risk-informed design optimization method and application in a lead-based research reactor Nuclear Engineering and Technology Risk-informed design Probabilistic safety assessment Lead-based research reactor RiskA |
| title | Risk-informed design optimization method and application in a lead-based research reactor |
| title_full | Risk-informed design optimization method and application in a lead-based research reactor |
| title_fullStr | Risk-informed design optimization method and application in a lead-based research reactor |
| title_full_unstemmed | Risk-informed design optimization method and application in a lead-based research reactor |
| title_short | Risk-informed design optimization method and application in a lead-based research reactor |
| title_sort | risk informed design optimization method and application in a lead based research reactor |
| topic | Risk-informed design Probabilistic safety assessment Lead-based research reactor RiskA |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1738573323001146 |
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