Browsing by Subject "Fukushima"
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(2020-04-30)In 2011, a series of seismic events induced a station blackout condition at the Japanese nuclear power site Fukushima Daiichi. Without power, all three units were unable to maintain proper core cooling. To supplement the ...
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(2017-05-03)After the Great East Tohoku Earthquake of 2011, operations at three critical reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi site were disrupted. All three reactor plants had automatic shutdowns. After a reactor is shutdown from power, ...
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(2018-10-29)The Reactor Core Isolation Cooling (RCIC) System is a safety system that provides water to the reactor pressure vessel during off-normal Boiling Water Reactor (BWR) conditions, such as reactor isolation from the turbines ...
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(2017-12-13)The Reactor Core Isolation Cooling (RCIC) system is found in certain boiling water reactor power plants. The RCIC system is meant to provide coolant to the reactor pressure vessel (RPV) in certain cases when the vessel is ...
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Two-Phase Operational Performance of a Terry GS-2 Steam Turbine Using Air & Water as Working Fluids (2020-01-09)This project investigates the performance of a Terry GS-2 turbine, and the attached trip-throttle valve and governor valve under two-phase (air/water) flow conditions. Because of their robust design, Terry turbines are ...