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Nuclear Power Technologies through Year 2035
Published in D. Yogi Goswami, Frank Kreith, Energy Conversion, 2017
Kenneth D. Kok, Edwin A. Harvego
APR1400: The APR1400 is an advanced design, earlier known as Korean Next-Generation Reactor. The design was certified by Korean Institute of Nuclear Safety in 2003 and the first two units have been constructed in Korea. The reactor is being marketed in the Middle East as a heat source for large desalinization systems. It has a generating capacity of 1350–1400 MWe.
Technology options and cost estimates of nuclear powered desalination in the United Arab Emirates
Published in Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 2023
Bassam A. Khuwaileh, Fatima E. Alzaabi, Belal Almomani, Muataz Ali
In this study, the upper bound reported data of Ruwais from reference [36] were considered for each season as a conservative case scenario with an assumption that these parameters are constant along the water column. This could complement the trends in the previously mentioned studies. The main technical and economic input parameters of the NPP, as well as their default values, are listed in Tables 5 and 6. The technical, operation and performance parameters of the APR-1400 plant including thermal power, net efficiency, and main steam temperature were obtained from [37,38], and site specific cooling water temperatures are adapted from [36]. In terms of the power plant economic parameters, the main cost inputs are the specific construction cost, specific fuel cost, specific operation and maintenance (O&M) cost, interest rate, and discount rate. The total financing cost of the four APR-1400 units in the UAE was announced to be $24.4 billion [39], hence making the specific construction cost for a single unit to be 4357.14 ($/kW). The specific fuel cost for APR-1400 with an average discharge burnup of fuel 44.6 MWd/kg [37] was calculated to be 3.5 ($/MWh) using the correlation from reference [12] (45,000 MWd/t burn-up gives 360,000 kWh electrical per kg, hence fuel cost = 0.39 ¢/kWh). The average interest rate in the UAE from 2007 to 2020 is 1.47%, as reported in [40]. A discount rate of 5% was kept at its default. However, a parametric range was considered for the interest rate and the discount rate in the sensitivity analysis. The rest of the inputs were maintained at DEEP’s defaults, which are considered standard.
Seismic analysis of nuclear power plants by using three-dimensional finite element models: a review
Published in Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 2019
Shohei Onitsuka, Tadashi Iijima, Tomonori Yamada, Shinobu Yoshimura
We retrieved articles related to seismic analysis of NPPs by using 3D FEMs. The keywords included ‘nuclear power plant’ (e.g. ‘US advanced pressurized water reactor (US-APWR)’ and ‘advanced power reactor (APR) 1400’), seismic analysis, 3D FEM, three-dimensional finite element method, and combinations of these keywords. From the articles retrieved, we identified certain articles discussing the characteristics and advantages of 3D FEMs. By investigating these articles [7–9,11–16], we found three major characteristics of 3D FEMs, as described below with key advantages.