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The ECCS has three systems, connected to the coolant system headers. In case of damage, the first ECCS subsystem provides cooling for up to seconds to the damaged half of the coolant circuit the other half is cooled by the main circulation pumps , and the other two subsystems then handle long-term cooling of the reactor.
The short-term ECCS subsystem consists of two groups of six accumulator tanks, containing water blanketed with nitrogen under pressure of 10 megapascals 1, psi , connected by fast-acting valves to the reactor. The third group is a set of electrical pumps drawing water from the deaerators.
The short-term pumps can be powered by the spindown of the main turbogenerators. ECCS for long-term cooling of the damaged circuit consists of three pairs of electrical pumps, drawing water from the pressure suppression pools; the water is cooled by the plant service water by means of heat exchangers in the suction lines.
Each pair is able to supply half of the maximum coolant flow. ECCS for long-term cooling of the intact circuit consists of three separate pumps drawing water from the condensate storage tanks, each able to supply half of the maximum flow. Some valves that require uninterrupted power are also backed up by batteries.
The distribution of power density in the reactor is measured by ionization chambers located inside and outside the core. The physical power density distribution control system PPDDCS has sensors inside the core; the reactor control and protection system RCPS uses sensors in the core and in the lateral biological shield tank. The external sensors in the tank are located around the reactor middle plane, therefore do not indicate axial power distribution nor information about the power in the central part of the core.
There are over radial and 12 axial power distribution monitors, employing self-powered detectors. Reactivity meters and removable startup chambers are used for monitoring of reactor startup. Total reactor power is recorded as the sum of the currents of the lateral ionization chambers. The moisture and temperature of the gas circulating in the channels is monitored by the pressure tube integrity monitoring system. The RCPS system consists of movable control rods.
Both systems, however, have deficiencies, most noticeably at low reactor power levels. Below those levels, the automatic systems are disabled and the in-core sensors are not accessible.
Without the automatic systems and relying only on the lateral ionization chambers, control of the reactor becomes very difficult; the operators do not have sufficient data to control the reactor reliably and have to rely on their intuition. During startup of a reactor with a poison-free core this lack of information can be manageable because the reactor behaves predictably, but a non-uniformly poisoned core can cause large nonhomogenities of power distribution, with potentially catastrophic results.
The reactor emergency protection system EPS was designed to shut down the reactor when its operational parameters are exceeded. However, the slow insertion speed of the control rods, together with their design causing localized positive reactivity as the displacer moves through the lower part of the core, created a number of possible situations where initiation of the EPS could itself cause or aggravate a reactor runaway. Its purpose was to assist the operator with steady-state control of the reactor.
Ten to fifteen minutes were required to cycle through all the measurements and calculate the results. SKALA could not control the reactor, instead it only made recommendations to the operators, and it used s computer technology. The operators could disable some safety systems, reset or suppress some alarm signals, and bypass automatic scram , by attaching patch cables to accessible terminals. This practice was allowed under some circumstances.
The reactor is equipped with a fuel rod leak detector. A scintillation counter detector, sensitive to energies of short-lived fission products, is mounted on a special dolly and moved over the outlets of the fuel channels, issuing an alert if increased radioactivity is detected in the steam-water flow.
In RBMK control rooms there are two large panels or mimic displays representing a top view of the reactor. One display is made up mostly or completely in first generation RBMKs of colored dials or rod position indicators: these dials represent the position of the control rods inside the reactor and the color of the housing of the dials matches that of the control rods, whose colors correspond to their function, for example, red for automatic control rods.
The other display is a core map or core channel cartogram and is circular, is made of tiles, and represents every channel on the reactor. Each tile is made of a single light cover with a channel number [24] and an incandescent light bulb, and each light bulb illuminates to represent out-of-spec higher or lower than normal channel parameters.
Operators have to type in the number of the affected channel s and then view the instruments to find exactly what parameters are out of spec. Each unit had its own computer housed in a separate room. The control room also has chart or trend recorders. Some RBMK control rooms have been upgraded with video walls that replace the mimic displays and most chart recorders and eliminate the need to type in channel numbers and instead operators lay a cursor over a now representative tile to reveal its parameters which are shown on the lower side of the video wall.
The RBMK design was built primarily to be powerful, quick to build and easy to maintain. Full physical containment structures for each reactor would have more than doubled the cost and construction time of each plant, and since the design had been certified by the Soviet nuclear science ministry as inherently safe when operated within established parameters, the Soviet authorities assumed proper adherence to doctrine by workers would make any accident impossible.
Additionally, RBMK reactors were designed to allow fuel rods to be changed at full power without shutting down as in the pressurized heavy water CANDU reactor , both for refueling and for plutonium production for nuclear weapons. This required large cranes above the core. As the RBMK reactor core is very tall about 7 m 23 ft 0 in , the cost and difficulty of building a heavy containment structure prevented the building of additional emergency containment structures for pipes on top of the reactor core.
In the Chernobyl accident , the pressure rose to levels high enough to blow the top off the reactor, breaking open the fuel channels in the process and starting a massive fire when air contacted the superheated graphite core. After the Chernobyl accident, some RBMK reactors were retrofitted with a partial containment structure in lieu of a full containment building , which surround the fuel channels with water jackets in order to capture any radioactive particles released.
The bottom part of the reactor is enclosed in a watertight compartment. There is a space between the reactor bottom and the floor. In the event of an accident, which was predicted to be at most a rupture of one or two pressure channels, the steam was to be bubbled through the water and condensed there, reducing the overpressure in the leaktight compartment.
The flow capacity of the pipes to the pools limited the protection capacity to simultaneous rupture of two pressure channels; a higher number of failures would cause pressure buildup sufficient to lift the cover plate "Structure E", after the explosion nicknamed "Elena", not to be confused with the Russian ELENA reactor , sever the rest of the fuel channels, destroy the control rod insertion system, and potentially also withdraw control rods from the core.
The leaktight compartments around the pumps can withstand overpressure of 0. The distribution headers and inlets enclosures can handle 0. The reactor cavity can handle overpressure of 0.
The pressure suppression system can handle a failure of one reactor channel, a pump pressure header, or a distribution header. Leaks in the steam piping and separators are not handled, except for maintaining slightly lower pressure in the riser pipe gallery and the steam drum compartment than in the reactor hall.
These spaces are also not designed to withstand overpressure. The steam distribution corridor contains surface condensers. The fire sprinkler systems , operating during both accident and normal operation, are fed from the pressure suppression pools through heat exchangers cooled by the plant service water, and cool the air above the pools.
Jet coolers are located in the topmost parts of the compartments; their role is to cool the air and remove the steam and radioactive aerosol particles. The air removal is stopped automatically in case of a coolant leak and has to be reinstated manually.
Hydrogen is present during normal operation due to leaks of coolant assumed to be up to 2 t 2. For the nuclear systems described here, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is used as the example. The power plant is connected to the kV and kV electrical grid. The block has two electrical generators connected to the kV grid by a single generator transformer.
The generators are connected to their common transformer by two switches in series. Between them, the unit transformers are connected to supply power to the power plant's own systems; each generator can therefore be connected to the unit transformer to power the plant, or to the unit transformer and the generator transformer to also feed power to the grid.
The kV line is normally not used, and serves as an external power supply, connected by a station transformer to the power plant's electrical systems. The plant can be powered by its own generators, or get power from the kV grid through the generator transformer, or from the kV grid via the station transformer, or from the other power plant block via two reserve busbars. In case of total external power loss, the essential systems can be powered by diesel generators.
Each unit transformer is connected to two 6 kV main power boards, A and B e. The 7A, 7B, and 8B boards are also connected to the three essential power lines namely for the coolant pumps , each also having its own diesel generator. In case of a coolant circuit failure with simultaneous loss of external power, the essential power can be supplied by the spinning down turbogenerators for about 45—50 seconds, during which time the diesel generators should start up.
The generators are started automatically within 15 seconds at loss of off-site power. The electrical energy is generated by a pair of MW hydrogen-cooled turbogenerators. These are located in the m 1, ft 6 in -long machine hall, adjacent to the reactor building.
The turbine and the generator rotors are mounted on the same shaft; the combined weight of the rotors is almost t short tons and their nominal rotational speed is rpm. The turbogenerator is 39 m ft 11 in long and its total weight is 1, t 1, short tons. The generator produces 20 kV 50 Hz AC power. The generator's stator is cooled by water while its rotor is cooled by hydrogen. The hydrogen for the generators is manufactured on-site by electrolysis. The Chernobyl plant was equipped with both types of turbines; Block 4 had the newer ones.
The only differences between RBMK and RBMK reactors are that the RBMK is cooled with less water, which also has a helical laminar instead of a purely laminar flow through the fuel rods, and it uses less uranium. The helical flow is created by turbulators in the fuel assembly and increases heat removal. As the name suggests, it was designed for an electrical power output of MW.
The only reactors of this type and power output are the ones at Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant. The RBMKP is rectangular instead of cylindrical, and it was a modular, theoretically infinitely longitudinally expandable design with vertical steam separators, intended to be made in sections at a factory for assembly in situ.
No reactor with this power output has ever been built, with the most powerful one currently being as of the MWe EPR. An RBMKP would have had an increased number of evaporating and superheating channels thus increasing power output. It was designed and constructed with several design characteristics that proved dangerously unstable when operated outside their design specifications. The decision to use a graphite core with natural uranium fuel allowed for massive power generation at only a quarter of the expense of heavy water reactors, which were more maintenance-intensive and required large volumes of expensive heavy water for startup.
However, it also had unexpected negative consequences that would not reveal themselves fully until the Chernobyl disaster. Light water ordinary H 2 O is both a neutron moderator and a neutron absorber. This means that not only can it slow down neutrons to velocities in equilibrium with surrounding molecules "thermalize" them and turn them into low-energy neutrons, known as thermal neutrons , that are far more likely to interact with the uranium nuclei than the fast neutrons produced by fission initially , but it also absorbs some of them.
In the RBMK series of reactors, light water functions as a coolant, while moderation is mainly carried out by graphite. As graphite already moderates neutrons, light water has a lesser effect in slowing them down, but could still absorb them. This means that the reactor's reactivity adjustable by appropriate neutron-absorbing rods must take into account the neutrons absorbed by light water.
Because of this lower density of mass, and consequently of atom nuclei able to absorb neutrons , light water's neutron-absorption capability practically disappears when it boils. This allows more neutrons to fission more U nuclei and thereby increase the reactor power, which leads to higher temperatures that boil even more water, creating a thermal feedback loop.
In RBMK reactors, generation of steam in the coolant water would then in practice create a void: a bubble that does not absorb neutrons. The reduction in moderation by light water is irrelevant, as graphite still moderates the neutrons.
However, the loss of absorption dramatically alters the balance of neutron production, causing a runaway condition in which more and more neutrons are produced, and their density grows exponentially. Such a condition is called a "positive void coefficient ", and the RBMK reactor series has the highest positive void coefficient of any commercial reactor ever designed. A high void coefficient does not necessarily make a reactor inherently unsafe, as some of the fission neutrons are emitted with a delay of seconds or even minutes post-fission neutron emission from daughter nuclei , and therefore steps can be taken to reduce the fission rate before it becomes too high.
This situation, however, does make it considerably harder to control the reactor, especially at low power. Thus, control systems must be very reliable and control-room personnel must be rigorously trained in the peculiarities and limits of the system. Neither of these requirements were in place at Chernobyl: since the reactor's actual design bore the approval stamp of the Kurchatov Institute and was considered a state secret , discussion of the reactor's flaws was forbidden, even among the actual personnel operating the plant.
Some later RBMK designs did include control rods on electromagnetic grapples, thus controlling the reaction speed and, if necessary, stopping the reaction completely. Features include: Tangle Oscillator , a powerful oscillator block that fuses extreme phase distortion twisting, warping, repeating and mixing basic waveforms for knotted and twisted sounds with FM synthesis, great for thick, harmonically rich timbres. The block also features 7 lo-fi modes which authentically model vintage convertors with gritty digital noise and jitter, great for dirty old-school digital synth sounds.
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