Evaluation on the impact of the fuel handling equipment by the characteristics of building in the nuclear power plant

An evaluation on the impact of the fuel handling equipment by the characteristics of building in the nuclear power plant was performed for structural integrity, operation, fabrication and construction of these equipment. The various types of buildings with the site characteristics in the domestic nuclear power plants were recently suggested considering safety, construction and cost. The building arrangement was developed for the Improved Korean Standard Nuclear Power Plant(KSNP+) and the Advanced Power Reactor(APR) 1400 based on the Korean Standard Nuclear Power Plant(KSNP). The fuel handling system consists of equipment and tools to refuel fuel assemblies between the core and the fuel storage rack. The design of the fuel handling equipment would be affected by building arrangement and its site characteristics in the nuclear power plant. In this paper, evaluation results of structural integrity, fabrication and construction, operation and its efficiency for these equipment in the KSNP+ and the APR 1400, which have a different characteristics of building compared with the KSNP, are provided