Design failure mode and effect analysis for Korean fusion DEMO plant

The construction of Korean Fusion DEMO Plant (KFDP) for a demonstration of the plasma analysis and engineering feasibilities is planned in 2030s based on the Korean fusion technology roadmap. The radiation safety should be assured for nuclear facilities, so that, the KFDP is required to research for the regulatory requirements and industrial codes and standards. The final design guidance of the engineered safety features should be served in future. As the first step for this research, the failure modes and effects analysis in a design stage was performed. This leads to find the list of potential hazard elements and to obtain the list of initiating events for the future probabilistic risk assessment. The hazard elements expected to seriously threaten the integrity of the KFDP were investigated and determined to quantify the effect of the initiating events in the effect analysis: (1) a total loss of active cooling water to occur during the burn with decay heat calculation and (2) coolant ingress from cooling circuits into the vacuum vessel, cryostat and containment building. For those initiating events, the quantitative simulations using transient mass and energy calculation and computational fluid dynamics were performed.

► We performed failure modes and effects analysis at design stage for Korean fusion DEMO plant.
► The list of potential hazard elements and the list of initiating events were obtained through the failure mode analysis.
► The hazard elements expected to seriously threaten the integrity of the KFDP were investigated and determined.
► We quantify the effect of the initiating events in the effect analysis: a total loss of active cooling water events and coolant ingress into confinements.