Performance of the ultrapure make-up system at turkey point nuclear power plant

摘要

For the past 6 years, all of the makeup water requriements for Floridal Power Light Company's Turkey Point Units 3 and 4 have bene supplied by a mobile water treatment service company, alone or in conjunction with in-plant demineralizers. From 1981 to 1989, supplemental and emergency services were provided by ion exchange demineralizer trailers which were exchanged for off-site-regenerated units upon exhaustion. In exchanges for off-site-regenerated units upon exhaustion. In 1989, water treatment system upgrades were made to include reverse osmosis technology to feed the plant's water treatment system. Finally, in 1993-94, further upgrades were made to eliminate the plant's in-house treatment system. The present treatment scheme includes activated carbon filtration. RO (which can be configured in either the single or two-pass mode), DEOX~direct R process ~1, and ion exchange demineralizer trailers. Additional in-line water quality monitoring for sodium, TOC, and silica was also added, along with automatic system shut-down circuitry for each parameter.