Challenges of Fusion Power Plant Licensing: Differences and Commonalities with Existing Systems

El-Guebaly, L.; Cadwallader, L.C.; Sowder, W.; Team, Aries

doi:10.13182/fst11-a12475

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“…Making the best use of the commonalities with NPPs [17,18,4,19] and considering the iterative processes, the pathway to the safety and licensing of K-DEMO will follow the processes shown in Fig. 9.…”

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“…-The design of K-DEMO plant will be carried out making the best use of the information technologies (IT) including 3D CAD, computational fluid dynamics, virtual reality, and design automation until kinetics and control model for K-DEMO reactor will be developed; -With these IT-based engineering works and cross-cuttings with the engineering technologies of nuclear power plants (NPP), the total investment until 2027, when the D-T operation of ITER will be started, is to be restricted to less than 1% of the total estimated cost of DEMO Program; -Cross cutting with NPPs to make the best use of the commonalities between fusion and fission [3][4][5] will be extensively considered including sharing of the test facilities for verification and validation (V&V) of the computational codes that are to be used for the design of K-DEMO reactor; -Global collaboration, based on the open-innovation strategy of K-DEMO program, will be considered to share the resources and risks with the other countries. …”

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An exploratory study on the gaps and pathways to the Korean fusion DEMO

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Fusion Engineering and Design

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An exploratory study on the gaps and pathways to the Korean fusion DEMO

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Kim

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Fusion Engineering and Design

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“…To make the best use of the commonalities between a fusion plant and NPP[3], the top-tier requirements for the studies of the design concept of DEMO Plant are to be developed based on that for NPP. Among the top-tier compulsory requirements for NPP, the general design criteria…”

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Safety classifications for the fusion DEMO plant of Korea

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Lee

Kwon

et al. 2011

2011 IEEE/NPSS 24th Symposium on Fusion Engineering

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Regulatory requirements and industrial codes and standards are to be compulsory top-tier prerequisites for the design and construction of a power plant with nuclear technologies. As it will take considerable time and substantial amounts of investment to develop that for the fusion power plants, design studies on a fusion DEMO plant will be carried out in parallel with developing its regulatory requirements and codes and standards. To overcome this dilemma, a tentative set of general design criteria and classification criteria that are to be applicable for the design studies of the fusion DEMO plant of Korea (DEMO Plant) are proposed with the vacuum vessel pressure boundary that corresponds to the Reactor Coolant Pressure Boundary of the nuclear power plant. To determine the tentative set, the radiation release to the environment and consequences of the postulated events in DEMO Plant are analyzed with rough approximation assuming the inherent safety of a fusion DEMO reactor. The classification criteria of the tentative set include safety class, electrical class, quality group and seismic category for the components, structures and systems of DEMO Plant. Use of ASME Section III for the design study of DEMO Plant is also proposed to make the best use of the commonalities between DEMO Plant and existing nuclear power plant. A. Overview of the DEMO Program of Korea The ftrst phase of the fusion DEMO program of Korea (DEMO Program) is a preparatory program, from 2009 through 2011, and is mainly for deftning the life cycle and developing the strategic plans for the program. In accordance with the strategic plans, the second phase of DEMO Program is to be a R&D program that is to put focus on developing engineering and construction technologies, rather than carrying out scientiftc researches, to expedite realization of fusion energy in the bottom half of 2030s [1]: It is to rely on the scientiftc outcomes of and lessons learned from KST AR, ITER, 978-1-4577-0668-4111/$26.00

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