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Summary Report of the EPRI Standard Radiation Monitoring Program. Dennis Hussey, EPRI Asian Technical Center ALARA Symposium Yuzawa, Japan October 11-13, 2006. Overview. History of Standard Radiation Monitoring Program (SRMP) Standard Radiation Monitoring Program Goals - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Summary Report of the EPRI Standard Radiation Monitoring Program
Dennis Hussey, EPRIAsian Technical Center ALARA SymposiumYuzawa, JapanOctober 11-13, 2006
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Overview
• History of Standard Radiation Monitoring Program (SRMP)
• Standard Radiation Monitoring Program Goals
• Plant Types and Survey Points
• Current Results
– US Responses
– Summary statistics of • loop piping
• channel head surveys
– Difference of cold leg and hot leg measurements
• Conclusions and Recommendations
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History of Standard Radiation Monitoring Program (SRMP)
• Started in 1978 to study radiation fields in Westinghouse-designed plants
– Program expanded to include Combustion Engineering (CE) designs
– In 1996, program was suspended because of a lack of industry interest and funding
• In 2003, NEI/INPO/EPRI developed the RP2020 Dose Reduction initiative
– Take Radiation Off the Table
– EPRI was charged to take the technical lead for source term reduction
– First goal was to benchmark PWR performance
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Standard Radiation Monitoring Program Goals
• Maintain the history of the program
– Much data have been acquired already
– Locations should not be change
• Make the procedure simple, focused, practical, and routine
– North American Technical Center recommendation
– Help HP staff so that HP staff can help us
• Organize the data to allow correlation to chemistry events and plant design
– PWR Monitoring and Assessment Database
• Encourage consistent sampling techniques
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SRMP Monitoring Points
• Workshop held in Charlotte March 7-9, 2006 to discuss– Selection of B&W points– Required vs Recommended points– Procedure clarifications
• Marker Discussions– Emergency Core Coolant System strainers limit
markers with vinyl– New markers made that are etched stainless steel
• Discussed further SRMP plans– Pre-oxidation points– Auxiliary system monitoring– Possible smears
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Westinghouse Monitoring Points
Crossover piping and SG Hot leg piping Cold leg piping
Steam Generator Channel Head
Loop piping
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Combustion Engineering Monitoring Points
Loop piping
Steam Generator Channel Head
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Babcock and Wilcox Monitoring Points
Loop piping
Steam Generator Channel Head
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Current US Survey Results
Parameter/Plant Type W CE B&W Total
Plants 33/48 5/14 5/7 43/69
Total Number of Outages 982 275 180 1437
Loop Dose Rate Measurements 733 60 48 841
Channel Head Dose Rate Measurements
538 27 42 607
% Loop Measurements Received 74.6 21.8 26.7 58.5
% Channel Head Measurements Received
54.8 9.8 23.3 42.2
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Summary Statistics: Loop Piping—Hot Leg and Cold Leg
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CE B&W W 3 loops W 4 Loops
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Average (mSv/hr)Standard Deviation (mSv/hr)Max (mSv/hr)Min (mSv/hr)
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Summary Statistics: Channel Head Center
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CE W 3 Loop W 4 Loop B&W
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Summary Statistics: Channel Head, Cold Leg - Hot Leg Difference
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Conclusions
• The Standard Radiation Monitoring Program has been re-instated
• The procedures have been simplified for the HP staff
• Babcock and Wilcox plants are now included in the program
• The historical measurement points have been maintained for reference
• The data variability is quite large over time
– Westinghouse-designed plants have largest limits, and longest history
– Summary stats are not enough for a quantitative analysis of dose rates
• The trend of the cold leg having higher radiation fields than the hot leg has been confirmed for Westinghouse and CE plants
– Unexpected results obtained for the B&W plants
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Recommendations
• Analyze the data to evaluate the change in radiation fields over time
– Time-based data will help understand transient changes in radiation fields
– Effects of system changes will be observable
• Compare the plants by chemistry operations, steam generator materials, and core duty
– SRMP database is combined with the EPRI PWR Chemistry Monitoring and Assessment Database
– Combined database also includes• Steam generator information
• Limited core duty
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Acknowledgements
• EPRI Solutions
– Sam Choi, Cara Libby
• PWR ALARA Group
– Leonard Rollins, Dan Stoltz
• North American Technical Center
– David Miller, Scott Schofield
• Romain Bouchacourt