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The Automatic Depressurization System (ADS) consists of a series of valves which open to vent steam several feet under the surface of a large pool of liquid water (known as the wetwell or torus) in pressure suppression type containments (typically used in boiling water reactor designs), or directly into the primary containment structure in ...
The Reactor Protection System (RPS) is a system, computerized in later BWR models, that is designed to automatically, rapidly, and completely shut down and make safe the Nuclear Steam Supply System (NSSS – the reactor pressure vessel, pumps, and water/steam piping within the containment) if some event occurs that could result in the reactor entering an unsafe operating condition.
GE Energy ESBWR website; Status report 100 - Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor (ESBWR) [permanent dead link ], ARIS, IAEA, 01-08-2011; POWER magazine article on the ESBWR Archived 2011-10-02 at the Wayback Machine; NRC ESBWR Overview page; ESBWR Probabilistic Risk Assessment; ESBWR Design Control Document, Rev. 10
Slightly different versions of the ABWR are offered by GE-Hitachi, Hitachi-GE, and Toshiba. [5]In 1997 the GE-Hitachi U.S. ABWR design was certified as a final design in final form by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, meaning that its performance, efficiency, output, and safety have already been verified, making it bureaucratically easier to build it rather than a non-certified design.
In a typical depressurization system, the goal is typically reduce the pressure in the plant to less than 50% of the design pressure or to 7 barg, whichever is lower, within 15 minutes. [ 2 ] Disposal of blowdown fluids is generally to flare systems or, if safe to do so, non-fired blowdown drums .
Rod motion is performed using rod drive control systems. Newer BWRs such as the ABWR and ESBWR as well as all German and Swedish BWRs use the Fine Motion Control Rod Drive system, which allows multiple rods to be controlled with very smooth motions. This allows a reactor operator to evenly increase the core's reactivity until the reactor is ...
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Passive nuclear safety is a design approach for safety features, implemented in a nuclear reactor, that does not require any active intervention on the part of the operator or electrical/electronic feedback in order to bring the reactor to a safe shutdown state, in the event of a particular type of emergency (usually overheating resulting from a loss of coolant or loss of coolant flow).