核电厂严重事故工况下运算放大器的辐照效应及退化模型研究

Study on Irradiation Effect and Degradation Model of Operational Amplifier under Nuclear Plant Severe Accident

  • 摘要: 本文针对核电厂严重事故(SA)环境下压力变送器关键元器件的可用性评估问题,研究了双极型运算放大器LM108在高温、高剂量率耦合条件下的辐照损伤特性。依据NB/T 20149—2012标准及“华龙一号”严重事故环境图谱,设计了模拟严重事故工况的辐照试验。在60Co γ射线源下,对LM108样品进行了不同温度(50、100和150 ℃)和高剂量率(3.3 kGy/h)的辐照试验,累积吸收剂量为36 kGy,重点监测了对辐射最为敏感的参数——输入偏置电流(Ib)的退化规律。试验发现,高温对LM108的辐照损伤具有显著的非单调抑制作用:在50 ℃(基准运行温度)下,Ib随累积剂量增加而单调增大,表现出损伤累积特性;而在100 ℃和150 ℃下,Ib随累积剂量呈现显著的先升后降趋势,特别是在150 ℃下,高累积剂量点的参数经历损伤峰值后恢复至接近初始值。分析表明,在严重事故工况初期,尽管高剂量率导致缺陷快速生成,但高温诱导的氧化物陷阱电荷密度(Not)的在线热退火效应随后占据主导地位,有效抵消了电离损伤。基于陷阱捕获电荷与热退火的动态竞争机制,本文构建了量化模型,并给出了关键参数。本文模型不仅拟合了试验数据,还预测了严重事故后期损伤进一步的恢复趋势,为核电厂仪表在超设计基准事故下的生存性评估提供了理论依据。

     

    Abstract: This paper addresses the availability assessment of key components of pressure transmitters under severe accident conditions in nuclear power plants, with a particular focus on the irradiation damage characteristics of the bipolar operational amplifier LM108 when subjected to coupled high-temperature and high dose rate environments representative of beyond-design-basis events. Based on the NB/T 20149—2012 standard and the severe accident environmental spectrum established for the HPR1000 reactor design, irradiation tests were carefully designed to simulate the transient and harsh conditions that instrumentation may experience during severe accident scenarios. Using a 60Co γ-ray source, LM108 samples were irradiated at three elevated temperatures (50, 100, and 150 ℃) and at a high dose rate of 3.3 kGy/h until a cumulative absorbed dose of 36 kGy was reached. Emphasis was placed on monitoring the degradation behavior of the input bias current (Ib), the device parameter identified as most sensitive to ionizing dose in preliminary characterizations, and on recording time-resolved parameter evolution for detailed mechanistic analysis. The experimental results reveal a pronounced and non-monotonic suppression effect of elevated temperature on LM108 irradiation damage. At 50 ℃, taken as the reference operating temperature, Ib increases monotonically with cumulative dose, demonstrating classical damage accumulation due to trapped oxide charge and interface states induced by ionizing radiation. In stark contrast, at 100 ℃ and 150 ℃, Ib exhibits a marked increase at low-to-intermediate doses followed by a decline as the cumulative dose continued to rise. Particularly at 150 ℃, Ib reaches a distinct damage peak at intermediate doses and then partially recovers toward its initial, pre-irradiation value at higher accumulated doses. These behaviors indicate that during the early phase of severe accident conditions the high dose rate accelerates the generation of radiation-induced defects, whereas at elevated temperatures thermally activated annealing processes, especially the annealing of oxide-trapped charge density (Not) and recombination of some interface defects, become progressively dominant and effectively counteract further ionizing damage. To quantitatively capture this interplay, a dynamic competition model between trap charge capture and thermally activated annealing was developed. The model incorporates generation terms proportional to dose rate and trapping efficiency, as well as annealing terms governed by Arrhenius-type temperature dependence. Key model parameters were extracted by fitting the measured Ib-versus-dose curves across the three temperature conditions. The resulting model not only reproduces the observed non-monotonic trends and the peak-and-recovery behavior at high-temperature but also predicts continued recovery in the late stage of the severe accident scenario. These findings provide a mechanistic explanation for temperature-dependent irradiation responses and supply a theoretical basis for survivability assessment and reliability prediction of instrumentation and control components in nuclear power plants subjected to beyond-design-basis accident environments.

     

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