After the accident at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station several investigation committees issued reports with lessons learned from the accident in Japan. Among those lessons, some recommendations have been made on severe accident research. Similar to the EURSAFE efforts under EU Program, review of specific severe accident research items was started before Fukushima accident in working group of Atomic Energy Society of Japan (AESJ) in terms of significance of consequences, uncertainties of phenomena and maturity of assessment methodology. Re-investigation has been started after the Fukushima accident in this working group. Additional effects of Fukushima accident, such as core degradation behaviors, sea water injection, containment failure/leakage and re-criticality have been covered. The review results are categorized in ten major fields; core degradation behavior, core melt coolability/retention in containment vessel, function of containment vessel, source term, hydrogen behavior, fuel-coolant interaction, molten core concrete interaction, direct containment heating, recriticality and instrumentation in severe accident conditions. In January 2012, Research Expert Committee on Evaluation of Severe Accident was established in AESJ in order to investigate severe accident related issues for future LWR development and to propose action plans for future severe accident research, in collaboration with this working group. Based on these activities and also author’s personal view, the present paper describes the perspective of important severe accident research issues after Fukushima accident. Specifically those are investigation of damaged core and components, advanced severe accident analysis capabilities and associated experimental investigations, development of reliable passive cooling system for core/containment, analysis of hydrogen behavior and investigation of hydrogen measures, enhancement of removal function of radioactive materials of containment venting, advanced instrumentation for the diagnosis of severe accident and assessment of advanced containment design which excludes long-term evacuation in any severe accident situations.
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2013 21st International Conference on Nuclear Engineering
July 29–August 2, 2013
Chengdu, China
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- Nuclear Engineering Division
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978-0-7918-5583-6
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Important Severe Accident Research Issues After Accident at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station
Jun Sugimoto
Jun Sugimoto
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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Jun Sugimoto
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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ICONE21-16796, V006T15A022; 6 pages
Published Online:
February 7, 2014
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Sugimoto, J. "Important Severe Accident Research Issues After Accident at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station." Proceedings of the 2013 21st International Conference on Nuclear Engineering. Volume 6: Beyond Design Basis Events; Student Paper Competition. Chengdu, China. July 29–August 2, 2013. V006T15A022. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/ICONE21-16796
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