Study on Airborne Radionuclide Dispersion in Floating Nuclear Power Plant under the Loss-of-Coolant Accident

Abstract

Floating nuclear power plant is a kind of nuclear power plant on a barge moored specifically in an area of the sea. In order to study the factors influencing airborne radionuclide dispersion induced by the loss-of-coolant accident in floating nuclear power plant, the floating nuclear power plant platform was taken as the research object, and the dispersion of airborne radionuclide under combined conditions of platform positions, wind directions, and break directions (north, south, west, and east) was simulated by the CFD (computational fluid dynamics) method. The results show that northern and southern breaks have less dangerous island area than western and eastern ones but have more platform dangerous area than the western and eastern ones. The risk of the southern break is the greatest, and that of the western break is the least. Rotating the floating nuclear power plant platform in a certain angle can reduce the damage of loss-of-coolant accident. The effects of the dose received by the personnel under the condition of the severe accident were evaluated based on previous research, showing that the inhalation effective dose and the effective dose of plume immersion exposure were less than the radiation dose limit of 0.25 Sv within two hours in the accident. The results of the study can provide reference for the design of floating nuclear power plant platform and the formulation of emergency plan.