Checking of Seismic and Tsunami Hazard for Coastal NPP of Chinese Continent

Chang Xiangdong * * Nuclear and Radiation Safety Center, MEP, China National Nuclear Safety Administration have made a checking on seismic and tsunami hazard for coastal NPPs of Chinese continent after Japanese Fukushima nuclear accident caused by earthquake tsunami. The results of the checking are introduced briefly in this paper, including the evaluations of seismic and tsunami hazard in NPP siting period, checking results on the seismic and tsunami hazard, as well as actions in future. As of 2011, there are thirteen NPP sites in coast of Chinese continent, which has fifteen operational nuclear units, twenty six units in the construction and still ten units in the planning status. The regulations and standards on NPP siting in China are basically based on the IAEA codes and standards. Some adjustments are made, such as the lowest limit of design basis earthquake of NPP site is adjusted with domestic seismic activity background from 0.1g to 0.15g. Both methods deterministic and probabilistic are used to evaluate seismic and hydrological hazard of each site, and take the bigger value of the two kind methods as the design basis of the NPP site. NPP sites are usually selected in low seismicity area in China. The seismic design of NPP must envelop evaluated ground motion of the site and have a proper safety margin. Because there are high intensity Typhoon in east and south coastal area of the Chinese continent, the storm surge is the foremost flood event to determine design basis flood. The water level from tsunami is much smaller compared with the storm surges. The new data have been used for checking seismic hazard of each NPP sites in the nuclear inspection after Fukushima nuclear accident. The results of the checking indicate that achieved seismic design basis ground motion of NPP sites is still reasonable and conservative. Seismic hazard evaluation in the site selection stage is accord with the nuclear safety regulations and standards. Since disastrous tsunami occurred usually at the subduction zone of great plate, it had been evaluated specially that the possible effect from both Ryukyu trench and Manila trench in the checking. Parameters of Tsunami Sources have been evaluated based on historical earthquake, scale of subduction zones and fault segmentation. The maximum magnitude in Ryukyu trench is assumed with M8.5 and Manila trench is M8.8however recorded maximum earthquake in history of Ryukyu and Manila trench respectively is M8.0 and M8.4. Tsunami amplitude at coastal water located NPP sites had been calculated with the numerical model. The tsunami effect for the NPP sites located coast of East China Sea and Yellow Sea is mainly from the Ryukyu trench subduction zone, but the calculated tsunami amplitude is very small generally less than 0.5m. For the NPP sites located coast of South China Sea, the tsunami effect is mainly from the Manila trench subduction zone. The calculated results show that the tsunami wave from Manila trench subduction zone has a relatively large impact to Guangdong coastal NPP sites. Calculated tsunami wave amplitude in Dayawan NPP site reached 2.7m, but it is still lower than the 5.30m water level from storm surge in the site. Survey about tsunami sediments have been accomplished in checking of seismic and tsunami hazard for coastal NPP of Chinese continent. Investigation points have 55 altogether along 31

with coastal area where located NPP sites. The result of the survey indicates that there not found to any formation from tsunami in coastal area of Chinese continent. About earthquake tsunami hazard, because Chinese coastal area belongs to the continental shelf and far from the boundary of plate collision, the tsunami hazard is not significant for coastal area of Chinese continent. However, the effect from tsunami still cant be excluded absolutely since calculated result of Manila trench tsunami source although the tsunami wave is lower than water level from storm surge. The research about earthquake tsunami will continue in future. The tsunami warning system and emergency program of nuclear power plant will be established based on principle of defense in depth in China.

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