Browsing by Subject "RCIC"
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(2017-07-06)The Reactor Core Isolation Cooling (RCIC) system found in certain boiling water reactor (BWR) power plants is intended to provide make-up coolant to the reactor pressure vessel (RPV) when it is isolated from the power-producing ...
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(2021-12-08)The Reactor Core Isolation Cooling (RCIC) system is a standby system for safe plant shutdown used in over 20 US BWRs. The coupled system can cool the core without AC power, and is composed of a Terry steam turbine, a pump, ...
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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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(2020-12-01)The 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident led to the destruction of three BWR cores and containment buildings. Despite the negative outcomes of this incident, the RCIC system for both Unit 2 and Unit 3 operated in harsher ...
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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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(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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(2019-04-16)In 2011, during the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident, a steam turbine driven safety system, Reactor Core Isolation Cooling (RCIC), operated under conditions it was previously expected to fail during, surpassing ...
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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 ...