Construction materials for reactor buildings for decommissioning and recycling

A conceptual fluid-steel structure was studied to investigate the seismic characteristics of its use in the reactor building of nuclear power plants. The results of the earthquake response analysis of the conceptual fluid-steel structure showed that the structure had the same seismic safety ability as conventional reactor buildings. Applying the fluid-steel structure to a rector building, results in the following advantages: more elastic and light weight building materials, reducing the decommissioning wastes; the ability to recycle the structure materials because the fluid in the steel structure can be discharged the steel can be reused easily; the fluid in the steel structure has the possibility of reducing the seismic response of the structure by the sloshing damper effect. Further study is encouraged by this results. © 1999 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved.