Companion Guide to the ASME Boiler & Pressure Vessel Code

Criteria and Commentary on Select Aspects of the

Boiler & Pressure Vessel and Piping Codes

Third Edition

VOLUME 1

EDITOR

K. R. RAO

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Companion guide to the ASME boiler & pressure vessel code/editor,

K. R. Rao. — 2nd ed

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index

ISBN 0-7918-0218-3 (v. 1) — ISBN 0-7918-0219-1 (v. 2) — ISBN 0-7918-0220-5 (v. 3)

1. Steam-boilers—Standards. 2. Pressure vessels—Standards. I. Rao, K. R., 1933–

TJ289.R36 2006

621.1 83021873–dc22 2005032521

Cover photos:

Volumes 1 & 2: Cover designer: Paul Moran

Paul Nehrenz, photographer; Courtesy of Entergy Corporation: Volume 1: Ninemile Point; Volume 2: Waterford Nuclear Plant Volume 3: Cover designer: Rorshach Design.

Background image: Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station, Courtesy of Tokyo Electric Power Company, Japan. Foreground image: UK Slugcatcher Vessel Complex, Courtesy of Whessoe Oil and Gas Ltd, Darlington, UK, Top left: Pt. Lepreau plant Provided by NB Power Nuclear, Canada. Bottom left: Column Pressure Vessel (10 bar), Courtesy of Richard Ducros Corporation, France.

CONTENTS

Dedication to the First Edition

Robert E.Nickell and William E.Cooper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii

Acknowledgements (to the First Edition)

K.R.Rao and Robert E.Nickell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v

Acknowledgements (to the Second Edition)

K.R.Rao. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v

Acknowledgements (to the Third Edition)

K.R.Rao. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi

Contributor Biographies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii

Preface to the First Edition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xlvii

Preface to the Second Edition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xlviii

Preface to the Third Edition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xlix

Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . li

Organization and Operation of the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Committee. . . . . . . . . . . lxxv

PART 1: POWER BOILERS — SECTIONS I & VII OF B&PV CODE

CHAPTER 1 Introduction to Power Boilers

Lloyd W.Yoder and John R.MacKay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

CHAPTER 2 Section VII—Recommended Guidelines for the Care of Power Boilers

Edmund W.K.Chang and Geoffrey M.Halley. . . . . . . . . . 41

PART 2: SECTION II OF B&PV CODE

CHAPTER 3 PART 2, Section II—Materials and Specifications

Domenic A.Canonico, Elmar Upitis, Richard A.Moen, Dennis Rahoi, and Marvin L.Carpenter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

PART 3: SECTION III — RULES FOR CONTRUCTION OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANT COMPONENTS

CHAPTER 4 A commentary for understanding and Applying the Principles of the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code

Roger F.Reedy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

CHAPTER 5 Subsection NCA—General Requirements for Division 1 and Division 2

Richard W.Swayne. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

CHAPTER 6 Subsection NB—Class 1 Components

David P.Jones and Greg L.Hollinger. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

CHAPTER 7 Section III: Subsections NC and ND—Class 2 and 3 Components

Marcus N.Bressler. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

CHAPTER 8 Subsection NB, NC, ND-3600 Piping

Donald F.Landers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

CHAPTER 9 Subsection NE—Class MC Components

Kamran Mokhtarian and Roger F.Reddy. . . . . . . . . . . . 319

CHAPTER 10 Subsection NF—Supports

Uma S.Bandyopadhyay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

CHAPTER 11 Subsection NG—Core Support Structures

John T.Land. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383

CHAPTER 12 Subsection NH—Class 1 Components in Elevated Temperature Service

Robert I.Jetter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409

CHAPTER 13 Nuclear Pumps and Valves

Marcus N.Bressler. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447

SECTION III DIVISION 2

CHAPTER 14 Code for Concrete Reactor Vessels and Containments

Hansraj Ashar, Barry Scott, Joseph F.Artuso and John D.Stevenson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461

SECTION III DIVISION 3

CHAPTER 15 Containments for Transportation and Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-level Radioactive Material and Waste*

D.Keith Morton and D.Wayne Lewis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487

PART 4: CODES FOR B31.1 & B31.3 PIPING

CHAPTER 16 B31.1, Power Piping

Charles Becht IV 501

CHAPTER 17 B31.3 Process Piping

Charles Becht IV. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553

PART 5: HEATING BOILERS - SECTION IV & VI OF B&PV CODE

CHAPTER 18 ASME Section IV: Rules for the Construction of Heating Boilers

CHAPTER 19 ASME Section VI: Recommended Rules for the Care and Operation of Heating Boilers

Geoffrey M.Halley and Edwin A.Nordstrom . . . . . . . . . 699

PREFACE

ASME Code Committees have spent time and considerable resources to update Section VIII Division 2 that was completely rewritten in the 2007 Code Edition, and this effort has been captured in Volume 2 by several experts conversant with this effort. Volume 2 has chapters addressing Code Sections VIII through XI, refurbished with additional code material consistent with the current 2007 Code edition. Notable updates included in this Volume relate to maintenance rule; accreditation and certification; perspectives on cyclic, impact and dynamic loads; functionality and operability criteria; fluids; pipe vibration testing and analysis; stress intensification factors, stress indices and flexibility factors; Code design and evaluation for cyclic loading; and bolted-flange joints, connections, code design and evaluation for cyclic loading for Code Sections III, VIII and a new chapter that discusses Safety of Personnel using Quick-actuating Closures on Pressure Vessels and associated litigation issues. While few chapters have been addressed by new authors who added fresh perspective, the efforts of continuing authors have provided their insights with additional equations, figures and tables in addition to extensive textual matter.

The third volume of this edition is considerably enlarged to expand the items addressing changing priorities of Codes and Standards. Continuing authors who addressed these topics in the previous edition have discussed these with respect to the ASME 2007 Code Edition. The discussions include chapters on BWR and PWR Reactor Internals; License Renewal and Aging Management; Alloy 600 Issues; PRA and Risk-Informed Analysis; Elastic-Plastic Fracture Mechanics; and ASME Code Rules of Section XII Transport Tank Code. Chapters covering ‘U.S. Transportation Regulations for Radioactive Materials’; ‘Pipeline Integrity and Security’, and ‘Decommissioning of Nuclear Facilities’ have been considerably revised.

In Volume 3 experts around the world capture ‘Issues Critical for the Next Generation of Nuclear Facilities’ such as Management of Spent Nuclear Fuel, Generation III1 PWRs, New Generation of BWRs and VERY High Temperature Generation IV Reactors.

The impact of globalization and inter-dependency of ASME B&PV Codes had been examined in the previous edition in

European Community, Canada, France, Japan and United Kingdom. Contributors who authored these country chapters revisited their write-up and updated to capture the current scenario.

Significant contribution in the third volume is the inclusion of additional countries with changing priorities of their Nuclear Facilities. In-depth discussions cover the international experts of these countries which own and operate nuclear reactors or have nuclear steam supply vendors and fabricators that use ASME B&PV Code Sections I through XII. This information is meant to benefit international users of ASME Codes in Finland, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Czech and Slovakia, Russia, South Africa, India, Korea and Taiwan that have been added in this third edition.

A unique feature of this publication is once again, as in the previous editions, the inclusion of all author biographies and an introduction that synthesizes every chapter, along with an alphabetical listing of indexed terms

K. R. Rao, Ph.D., P.E.

Editor