Seismic Margin Assessment of Hatch nuclear power plant
Creators
- 1. Southern Co. Services, Inc., Birmingham, AL (USA)
- 2. Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA (USA)
Description
This paper presents the results of the Seismic Margin Assessment (SMA) of Plant Hatch Unit 1. The activities associated with the Plant Hatch SMA include: selection of the seismic margin earthquake; seismic margin assessment of soils including evaluation of soil liquefaction, slope stability, and soil profiles; soil structure interaction analysis and development of new floor response spectra; success path selection; seismic capability walkdown; and seismic margin assessment work. This program is a trial SMA of a boiling water reactor on a soil site; it is being performed to evaluate the Electric Power Research Institute SMA methodology. The primary purpose of a margin review is to demonstrate sufficient margin over the safe shutdown earthquake (SSE) to assure plant safety and to find any weaker links which might limit the plant shutdown capability to safely withstand a seismic event larger than the SSE
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Imprint Title
- Seventeenth water reactor safety information meeting: Proceedings. Volume 2, Accident management; severe accident research; earth sciences; probabilistic risk assessment; seismic and structural engineering
- Imprint Pagination
- 515 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 491-515.
- Report number
- NUREG/CP--0105-Vol.2
Conference
- Title
- 17. water reactor safety information meeting.
- Dates
- 23-25 Oct 1989.
- Place
- Rockville, MD (United States).
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 23005590
- Subject category
- S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- BUILDINGS; DAMPING; DESIGN BASIS ACCIDENTS; EARTHQUAKES; EPRI; GROUND MOTION; HATCH-1 REACTOR; MECHANICAL STRUCTURES; REACTOR COMPONENTS; REACTOR CONTROL SYSTEMS; REACTOR SAFETY; REACTOR SHUTDOWN; RESEARCH PROGRAMS; SEISMIC EFFECTS; SITE SELECTION; SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS
- Descriptors DEC
- ACCIDENTS; BWR TYPE REACTORS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS; MOTION; POWER REACTORS; REACTOR ACCIDENTS; REACTORS; SAFETY; SHUTDOWN; THERMAL REACTORS; WATER COOLED REACTORS; WATER MODERATED REACTORS
Optional Information
- Secondary number(s)
- CONF-8910222--Vol.2.