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Seismic Design and Verification of a Nuclear Power Plant Structure for the Storage of Radioactive Waste Components

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Seismic design and qualification of safety and/or radiological relevant structures for Swiss NPPs are subjected to rigorous procedures. Structures have to meet high safety standards, be robustly designed and therefore cover a wide range of parameter uncertainties both on seismic action and capacity side. In the framework of a wide Facility Power Retrofit at the Swiss Leibstadt NPP the Project ZENT (acronym of radioactive waste storage building) aims to erect two new structures on the site. Due to operational and radiological reasons, these new structures have to be built very close respectively above to the already mentioned existing structures. One structure has to be founded on piles above the existing NPP main cooling pipelines. Approval of this new seismic foundation system by Swiss Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate (ENSI) required extended seismic design. This paper attempts to describe the analyses performed by the Owner for seismic qualification and verification of structural integrity at planning stage.

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  1. Nuclear Division, Axpo Power AG, Parkstrasse 23, Baden, Switzerland

    Davide Kurmann

  2. Cervenka Consulting Ltd., Na Hrebenkach 55, Prague, Czech Republic

    Zdenek Janda & Jan Cervenka

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  1. Lehrstuhl für Baustatik u. Baudynamik, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

    Sven Klinkel

  2. Lehrstuhl für Baustatik und Baudynamik, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

    Christoph Butenweg

  3. Fac. of Infrastructure Eng., Dalian Univ. of Technology, Dalian City, China, People's Republic

    Gao Lin

  4. Lehrstuhl Baustatik u. Baudynamik, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

    Britta Holtschoppen

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Kurmann, D., Janda, Z., Cervenka, J. (2014). Seismic Design and Verification of a Nuclear Power Plant Structure for the Storage of Radioactive Waste Components. In: Klinkel, S., Butenweg, C., Lin, G., Holtschoppen, B. (eds) Seismic Design of Industrial Facilities. Springer Vieweg, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-02810-7_42

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