A Deterministic and Probabilistic Framework for Forecasting of Time-Series Damage States and Associated End-of-lIfe of a Pressurizer Water Reactor Surge Line under Design-Basis and Grid-Load-Following Loading Conditions [report]

Subhasish Mohanty, Jae Phil Park, Daniel Franken, Joseph T. Listwan, Saurin Majumdar, Ken Natesan
2018 unpublished
This report presents an update on the environmental fatigue research that is being conducted at Argonne National Laboratory in support of the Department of Energy's Light Water Reactor Sustainability (LWRS) program. The present semi-annual report covers the period between May 2018 and September 2018. In this report, we present the work performed to further improve the capability for structural integrity prediction. Part of this work focused on validating a computational fluid dynamics model for
more » ... modeling thermal stratification. We also present finite element (FE) model based thermal-mechanical stress analysis of a pressurized water reactor (PWR) surge line under grid-load-following loading condition. In addition, we present work related to end-of-life prediction of a PWR surge line based on ASME code and NUREG-6909 deterministic approaches under design-basis and grid-load-following conditions.
doi:10.2172/1557591 fatcat:5jgpwzst5zacnkwfuig6t33jma