Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Makoto Akinaga

Takashi Sato

Hirohide Oikawa

Yoshihiro Kojima

Mika Tahara

Hisaki Sato

Yasunobu Fujiki

Ryoichi Hamazaki

Kazunori Hashimoto

Seiichi Yokobori

Hiromasa Yanagisawa

Toshimi Tobimatsu

According to an embodiment, a nuclear reactor containment vessel has: a primary reactor containment vessel which contains a nuclear pressure vessel; a secondary reactor containment vessel and which is disposed outside the primary reactor containment vessel which has the pressure resistant properties and the leak-tightness which are equivalent to those of the primary reactor containment vessel; an air bag which is disposed within the secondary reactor containment vessel and which, when a failure occurs in primary reactor containment vessel, expands while receiving and encapsulating a high pressure gas discharged from the inside of the primary reactor containment vessel; and a gas phase vent pipe which connects the primary reactor containment vessel and the air bag.

Reactor containment vessel and nuclear power plant using the same

According to an embodiment, a pressurized water reactor plant has a primary system which includes: a reactor vessel for housing a reactor core which is cooled by a primary coolant, a single steam generator, a hot leg pipe for connecting the reactor vessel and the steam generator, cold leg pipes, at least two primary coolant pumps, and a pressurizer for pressurizing the primary coolant pressure boundary in which the primary coolant flows. The plant also has: a passive cooling and depressurization system which is a primary depressurization means for equalizing the primary system pressure to the secondary system pressure at the time of a tube rupture accident of the steam generator, and a reactor containment vessel containing the primary system and cooling the primary system by air cooling. Thus, a compact pressurized water rector with high economic efficiency, safety, and reliability can be provided.

Pressurized water reactor plant

A drain sump of a reactor containment vessel having a containment vessel floor down below a reactor pressure vessel, and includes a heat-proof sump cover and two or more drain flow paths. The drain sump is arranged inside the containment vessel floor. The heat-proof sump cover has a thickness, and covers an upper part of the drain sump. The thickness allows a top surface of the sump cover to lie in the same surface as a top surface of the containment vessel floor. The drain flow paths pass through the sump cover in a thickness direction to flow water therethrough and solidify a molten corium therein. The molten corium is produced in the unlikely event of a severe accident.

Drain sump of nuclear reactor containment vessel

A pressure suppression and decontamination apparatus for a reactor container which is provided with a reactor pressure vessel containing nuclear core fuel and forms a dry well space including, a dry well cooling unit for cooling a gas in the dry well space and for producing a condensate of the gas, a circulation device for leading the gas in the dry well space to the dry well cooling unit, and a sprinkling device for sprinkling the condensate in the dry well space.

Pressure suppression and decontamination apparatus and method for reactor container

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Kanagawa, Japan

Makoto Akinaga