Pressurized Water Reactors
- 1st Edition - July 8, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editors: Yurugi Kanzaki, Hidehito Mimaki, Tomofumi Yamamoto
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 3 5 8 3 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 3 5 8 4 - 3
Pressurized Water Reactors is the sixth volume in the JSME Series on Thermal and Nuclear Power Generation. In this volume, series editor Yasuo Koizumi and his volume editors, Hi… Read more
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Request a sales quotePressurized Water Reactors is the sixth volume in the JSME Series on Thermal and Nuclear Power Generation. In this volume, series editor Yasuo Koizumi and his volume editors, Hidehito Mimaki, Yurugi Kanzaki, and Tomofumi Yamamoto, compile all the latest research on PWRs into this comprehensive reference.
Beginning with an analysis of the history of PWR development, the reader is guided through optimum design processes for PWRs, considering safety throughout. Thermal-hydraulic aspects within the PWR system, as well as inside the reactor core, are also discussed.
This book explores the advancement and improvement of fuel and includes analysis codes for the design and safety of PWRs. The future prospects for the next generation of PWR and small modular reactors are discussed, thus providing the reader with a basis for further research of their own.
As with the other volumes in this series, this book will be an invaluable resource for nuclear and thermal engineers and researchers.
Contains contributions from the leaders and pioneers in nuclear research at the Japanese Society of Mechanical Engineers and draws upon their combined wealth of knowledge and experience
Includes analysis codes, such as RELAP5, for the design and safety improvement of pressurized water reactors (PWRs)
Presents history, examples, and case studies from Japan and other key regions, such as the United States and Europe
Nuclear engineers and researchers focusing on PWRs, PWR plant designers and operators, regulators, post graduate students of nuclear engineering, thermal energy engineers and researchers, national labs, government officials and agencies in power and energy policy and regulations.
1. History of PWR development
1.1 Early research and development of PWR
1.2 Technology importation and standardization
(1) The first standardization
(2) The second standardization
1.3 Improvement of system and construction
(1) Reduction of construction period
(2) Other improvements
1.4 Construction experience and operational performance
2. PWR plant designs
2.1 Features of PWR plant
(1) 2-loops, 3-loops, 4-loops
(2) APWR
2.2 PWR major systems
(1) Primary loop
(2) Reactor vessel and internals
(3) Pressurizer
(4) Reactor coolant pump
(5) Secondary loop
(6) Containment system
(7) Turbine and generator system
2.3 Auxiliary systems
(1) Boron recycle system (BRS)
(2) Boron thermal regeneration system (BTRS)
(3) Residual heat removal system (RHRS)
(4) Reactor coolant system
(5) Steam Generator Blowdown processing system
(6) Other systems and components
2.4 Safety systems
(1) Safety injection system(SIS) and components
(2) High-pressure injection
(3) Emergency feedwater for secondary loop (EFWS)
(4) Component cooling water system (CCWS)
(5) Containment isolation system (CIS)
(6) Containment Spray system (CSS)
(7) Hydrogen control
(8) Other systems and components
2.5 Major instrumentation and controls
(1) Plant start-up
(2) Power operation
(3) Plant shutdown
3. Nuclear thermal-hydraulics of reactor core and fuel assembly
3.1 Reactor core construction and flow paths in reactor pressure vessel
3.2 Advances of reactor core and fuel assembly
(1) High burnup fuel design (Step0, 1, 2)
(2) MOX fuel design
(3) Thermal-hydraulics design W-3, MIRC-1, NFI-1 correlations Subchannel analysis codes: THINC, COBRA-3C DNBR, MDNBR
3.3 Advances of reactor core and fuel analysis RELAP analysis, etc.
4. Plant Life Management and Maintenance Technologies
4.1 Regular inspection and inspection technologies
4.2 Preventive maintenance technologies
4.3 Reduction of radiation exposure
4.4 Protection and prediction technologies for erosion corrosion
5. PWR Innovations
5.1 Next Generation PWR
5.2 Small PWRs
5.3 US-APWR
5.4 AP1000
5.5 ATMEA1
5.6 Power uprate in PWR
- Edition: 1
- Published: July 8, 2024
- No. of pages (Paperback): 506
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128235836
- eBook ISBN: 9780128235843
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