scholarly journals Passive Safety Testing at the Fast Flux Test Facility

1989 ◽  
Vol 88 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. M. Lucoff
Keyword(s):  
Test Facility ◽  
Passive Safety ◽  
Safety Testing ◽  
Fast Flux

Comprehensive Analysis of Passive Safety Test Phase IIB in the Fast Flux Test Facility

1994 ◽  
Vol 107 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akira Yamaguchi ◽  
Hajime Niwa ◽  
Mitsuaki Yamaoka ◽  
Kazuyuki Tsukimori ◽  
Yoshio Shimakawa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
Test Phase ◽  
Test Facility ◽  
Passive Safety ◽  
Safety Test ◽  
Fast Flux

scholarly journals Experimental investigation of LWR passive safety systems performance at the INKA test facility

2019 ◽  
Vol 137 ◽  
pp. 01035
Author(s):  
Rafał Bryk ◽  
Thomas Mull ◽  
Holger Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Test Facility ◽  
Passive Safety ◽  
Light Water Reactors ◽  
Passive Systems ◽  
Actual Performance ◽  
Passive Safety Systems ◽  
Original Plant ◽  
Water Reactors ◽  
Original Objective ◽  
Safety Systems

INKA is a test facility designed by Framatome and built in the technical center in Karlstein. The original objective for establishing this test rig was the investigation of the performance of the passive safety systems developed in a new Framatome Boiling Water Reactor (BWR) design – KERENA. INKA was constructed in the scale of 1:1 in heights while the total volume of the containment was replicated in 1:24. Since the geometries of particular safety systems are faithfully reflected, their actual performance in the original plant can be investigated at the full scale. Due to the unquestionable interest of the nuclear community in the inherent safety, not only new BWR and PWR designs are equipped with the passive systems, but also particular passive solutions are considered to be applied into the already existing Light Water Reactors (LWR). In this context and due to the fact that both, single component tests and integral tests can be conducted at INKA, the facility can be employed for a demonstration/qualification of a large range of passive safety systems foreseen for quite different types of LWRs. Hence, the goal of the EASY project was the experimental confirmation of the passive systems performance and the analysis of their interactions between each other in the integral tests. Besides, the overarching target of all tests performed at INKA is provision of data for codes validation. This paper presents major outcomes and conclusions drawn on the basis of EASY project results.

Evaluation of a 12-Hour/Day Shift Schedule

1986 ◽  
Vol 30 (9) ◽  
pp. 885-889 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul M. Lewis ◽  
Dan J. Swaim
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Plant Performance ◽  
Test Facility ◽  
Work Schedule ◽  
Sleep Health ◽  
Evaluation Program ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
Shift Schedule ◽  
Reasonable Alternative ◽  
Fast Flux

In April 1985, the operating crews at the Fast Flux Test Facility near Richland, Washington, changed their rotating shift schedule from an 8- to a 12-hour/day work schedule. The primary purpose of the change was to reduce the attrition of operators by increasing their job satisfaction. Eighty-four percent of the operators favored the change. A program was established to evaluate the effects on plant performance, operator alertness, attrition, sleep, health, job satisfaction, and off- the-job satisfaction. Preliminary results from that evaluation program indicate that the 12-hour shift schedule is a reasonable alternative to an 8-hour schedule at this facility.

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