Optimal Design of NPP Containment Protection Against Fuel Container Drop

This paper presents a optimal design of a damping devices for the protection of the reinforced concrete structure of a nuclear power plant (NPP) against the impact loads from a container of nuclear fuel of the type TK C30 drop. The finite element idealization of the building structure is used in space. The interaction of the soil-structure, as well as the fluid-structure of the deactivated basin is considered in space. A steel pipe damper system is proposed for the dissipation of the kinetic energy of the container is free fall. The Newmark’s integration method is used for the solution of the dynamic equations.