Sustainable decommissioning strategies for nuclear power plants: A systematic literature review

K Park, S Son, J Oh, S Kim - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
The decommissioning of nuclear power plants (NPPs) is rapidly increasing because NPPs
are not only no longer profitable in many cases but are also being decommissioned due to a …

Thermal analysis for evaluating the required cooling time of the emergency plan exemption for the Maanshan PWR units

YS Chen, BY Chen, CL Yu, TC Wang - Progress in Nuclear Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
The Maanshan plant is scheduled to be decommissioned in 2025. Taiwan Power Company,
the owner of the plant, plans to apply exemption from the emergency plan (EP) while the …

[HTML][HTML] Time assessment of instrumentation survivability and severe accident guidelines application

K Fernández-Cosials, C Queral… - … Engineering and Design, 2022 - Elsevier
The Instrumentation performance during a Severe Accident (SA) is currently one of the key
identified gaps in Nuclear Safety. The instrumentation is licensed using the pressure and …

Accident influence to the thermal conditions of the main buildings of the Kuosheng plant during the decommissioning process

A Lin, LY Huang, YS Chen - Nuclear Engineering and Design, 2022 - Elsevier
The Kuosheng plant has two BWR/6 units and unit 1 has started the decommissioning
process. The fuel assemblies are staying inside the reactor vessel due to insufficient space …

Water inventory calculation for the shutdown boiling water reactors

YS Chen, LY Huang, A Lin - Nuclear Engineering and Design, 2023 - Elsevier
During a shutdown of a Boiling Water Reactor, if a leakage event occurs, it is necessary to
take action before the water level drops below the top of the active fuel. A simplified method …

Numerical study on the effect of the PI-controller type on the quasi-steady reactor pressure in MAAP 5.04 code

CL Yu, CH Chen - Kerntechnik, 2024 - degruyter.com
In this work, the boiling water reactor (BWR) was adopted as a physical model to study the
influence of PI-controller type on the quasi-steady reactor pressure in MAAP 5.04 code. The …