By Michio Ishikawa
Written by means of a professional within the box, this publication is ideal should you wish to understand what occurred on the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear strength Plant. half 1 of the publication reports how middle melts happened in Fukushima Daiichi devices 1, 2, and three, respectively, in keeping with facts from the Three-Mile Island middle soften coincidence and gas habit experiments played within the Seventies below the cooperation among the U.S., Germany, and Japan. this knowledge explains the twist of fate strategies with out contradicting information from Fukushima, which used to be released within the TEPCO document. The hydrogen explosions in devices 1, three, and four also are defined logically at the side of the above middle soften strategy. half 2 clarifies how the historical past radiation point of the positioning doubled: the 1st upward push was once only a leak from small openings in devices 1 and three linked to fire-pump connection paintings. the second one upward thrust resulted in direct radioactive fabric unencumber from unit 2. Evacuation dose adequacy and its timing are mentioned just about the twist of fate approach, and the need for embankments surrounding nuclear strength crops to extend safeguard opposed to normal mess ups can also be mentioned. New proposals for protection layout and emergency preparedness are recommended in accordance with classes discovered from the coincidence in addition to from new reports. eventually, an idea for decommissioning the Fukushima web site and a restoration plan are introduced.
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1 Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Station Accident 14 Zirconium oxide coating Zirconium agglomerates UO2 pellet Fig. 4 Oxidated and split status of fuel rod in NSRR test large amount of radioactivity was diffused in the loop. It was obvious that the fuel rod had been damaged. “The fuel rod that withstood the intense heat broke down as soon as their temperatures dropped when the reactor operation was stopped. ” It was a strange way of breaking. When the test loop was opened, they found blackened and disintegrated pieces of fuel rods (see Fig.
The problem here is that, because the safety criteria of 1,200 °C has become so famous, surprisingly a large number of nuclear professionals believe that a core starts to melt when the surface temperatures of zircaloy cladding tubes exceed 1,200 °C. We have studied the PCM test so we are now aware that this belief is quite incorrect. They held quite firm. The reason was that the temperatures of fuel rods did not reach 1,500 °C all at once but rather each fuel rod had its own history of gradual temperature rise, during which an oxide film was formed on the surface of each fuel rod.
7 Conclusion from TMI Accident As the conclusion of this chapter, I will compile here the facts that will be needed in the analysis of the Fukushima accident. The light water reactor fuel (core) does not collapse by melting even if the temperature rises to a red-hot condition due to imbalance of output and cooling. However, if fuel rods that are in red-hot condition are quenched, the fuel rods will get split up into pieces and the core will collapse. The collapsed fuel’s debris will be generally cooled by the water running around them so they will maintain their shapes.