iB1350 stands for an innovative, intelligent and inexpensive BWR 1350. The iB1350 uses innovative passive containment cooling system (iPCCS). The iPCCS is a part of the in-containment filtered venting system (IFVS). The vent pipe is submerged in the IFVS tank in the outer well (OW) of the Mark W containment. The conventional PCCS has a suction pipe only from the dry well (DW). On the contrary, the iPCCS has two suction pipes. One is normally opened to the wet well (WW) and another normally closed to the DW. The suction pipe in the conventional design cannot be connected to the WW because the PCCS vent pipe is connected to the WW. A PCCS functions using differential pressure between two nodes to discharge noncondensable gases in a PCCS heat exchanger (Hx). A suction pipe and a vent pipe must be connected to different nodes to use differential pressure. Therefore, the conventional PCCS never can cool the S/P. Although the S/P is the in-containment heat sink, heat up of the S/P is the most unfavorable for the conventional PCCS. In order to use the PCCS the conventional design must discharge steam directly into the DW instead of the S/P. Therefore, the conventional PCCS must open depressurization valves (DPV) at a SBO if the isolation condenser (IC) fails. On the contrary, the iPCCS can cool the S/P directly using the suction pipe connected to the WW and without DPV. Instead of DPV the iB1350 has modulating valves (MV) of which discharge lines are submerged in the S/P. Even if the IC fails during a SBO, the iB1350 can cool the core using the severe accident feedwater system (SAFWS), the SRV or the MV, and the iPCCS. The SAFWS makes up the core. The decay heat is carried by steam to the S/P through the SRV or the MV. The S/P works as in-containment heat sink. Once the S/P starts boiling, the iPCCS automatically initiates cooling of the steam from the S/P not only in a SA but also in a DBA LOCA. Therefore, the iPCCS provides the possibility to reduce the number of the RHR/RCW/RSW resulting in cost reductions and reliability improvement. In the case of a core melt accident, a certain amount of FP is released into the S/P and heats up the S/P. Once the S/P starts boiling, the noncondensable gases in the WW is purged by the steam into the DW and then into the PCCS Hx. In order to purge the stagnant gases, the conventional PCCS needs an active fan in the long term. On the contrary, the iPCCS can easily purge noncondensable gases in the heat exchanger using differential pressure to the OW and does not need any active fan even in the long term. Moreover, after the equalization between the dry well and wet well due to steam leakage, hydrogen and oxygen generated by radiolysis accumulate in the PCCS heat exchanger in the case of the conventional PCCS because it can never vent the flammable gases to the equalized WW. Therefore, the conventional PCCS needs flammable gas protection such as a catalytic recombiner in the heat exchanger and an active fan. However, the iPCCS can vent flammable gases to the OW passively and no such protection is necessary.
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