• Title of article

    NumericalsimulationofaHypotheticalCoreDisruptiveAccidentinasmall-scalemodelofanuclearreactorOriginalResearchArticle

  • Author/Authors

    M.F.Robbe، نويسنده , , Michel Lepareux، نويسنده , , E.Treille، نويسنده , , Y.Cariou، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2003
  • Pages
    38
  • From page
    159
  • To page
    196
  • Abstract
    nthecaseofaHypotheticalCoreDisruptiveAccident(HCDA)inaLiquidMetalFastBreederReactor,itisassumedthatthecoreofthenuclearreactorhasmeltedpartiallyandthatthechemicalinteractionbetweenmoltenfuelandliquidsodiumhascreatedahigh-pressuregasbubbleinthecore.Theviolentexpansionofthisbubbleloadsanddeformsthereactorvesselandtheinternalstructures,thusendangeringthesafetyofthenuclearplant. TheMARA10experimentaltestsimulatesaHCDAina1/30-scalemock-upschematisingareactorblock.Inthemock-up,theliquidsodiumcoolingthereactorcoreisreplacedbywaterandtheargonblanketlayingbelowthereactorroofissimulatedbyanairblanket.Theexplosionistriggeredbyanexplosivecharge. ThispaperpresentsanumericalsimulationofthetestwiththeEUROPLEXUScodeandananalysisofthecomputedresults.Inparticular,theevolutionofthefluidflowsandthedeformationsoftheinternalandexternalstructuresareanalysedindetail.Finally,thecurrentcomputedresultsarecomparedwiththeexperimentalonesandwithpreviousnumericalresultscomputedwiththeSIRIUSandCASTEM-PLEXUScodes.
  • Journal title
    Nuclear Engineering and Design Eslah
  • Serial Year
    2003
  • Journal title
    Nuclear Engineering and Design Eslah
  • Record number

    894559

    • Link To Document
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