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- Title
Service Life Restoration Technology for RBMK: Design, Implementation, and Assimilation Experience.
- Authors
Adamov, E. O.; Dragunov, Yu. G.; Slobodchikov, A. V.; Mikhailov, M. N.; Petrov, A. A.; Ukharov, S. G.; Burlakov, E. V.; Asmolov, V. G.; Chernikov, O. G.; Bystrikov, A. A.; Kudryavtsev, K. G.; Lozhnikov, I. N.; Kharakhnin, S. N.
- Abstract
The RBMK design-stage service life was assumed to be 30 years. Ten power-generating units have now exceeded this limit. Service life extension of nuclear power plants is a common practice in countries using nuclear energy. This approach was also applied to power-generating units with RBMK-1000 with servicelife extension to 45 years or more. To maintain electricity production in NPPs with RBMK, a technology for restoring the service-life characteristics was developed and implemented in the No. 1 unit of the Leningradskaya NPP. The results of the adoption of this technology in combination with experimental and computational validation of safety made it possible to extend the operation of the No. 1 unit of the Leningradskaya NPP in the power-generation mode since December 2013. Similar work was subsequently successfully completed in other power-generating units with RBMK.
- Subjects
NUCLEAR reactor maintenance; NUCLEAR reactors management; SERVICE life; THERMAL conductivity; NUCLEAR reactor cores
- Publication
Atomic Energy, 2018, Vol 123, Issue 5, p293
- ISSN
1063-4258
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10512-018-0342-4