• Title of article

    ComputationofacoredisruptiveaccidentintheMARSmock-upOriginalResearchArticle

  • Author/Authors

    VivekAgarwal، نويسنده , , Sundarsingh، نويسنده , , V.Ramachandran، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2005
  • Pages
    38
  • From page
    1403
  • To page
    1440
  • Abstract
    Ahypotheticalcoredisruptiveaccidentinaliquidmetalfastbreederreactor(LMFBR)resultsfromtheinteractionbetweenmoltenfuelandliquidsodium,whichcreatesahigh-pressurebubbleofgasinthecore.Theviolentexpansionofthisbubbleloadsanddeformsthevesselandtheinternalstructures.TheMARSexperimentaltestsimulatesaHCDAinasmall-scalemock-upcontainingallthesignificantinternalcomponentsofafastbreederreactor.Themock-upisfilledwithwater,toppedbyanargonblanket,andtheexplosionisgeneratedbyanexplosivecharge. ThispaperpresentsanumericalsimulationofthetestwiththeEUROPLEXUScode.Thetopclosureisrepresentedbymassivestructuresandthemaininternalstructuresaredescribedbyshells.Thecurrentnumericalresultsaredescribedandcomparedwiththeexperimentalones,andpreviouscomputationswiththeCASTEM-PLEXUScode.
  • Journal title
    Nuclear Engineering and Design Eslah
  • Serial Year
    2005
  • Journal title
    Nuclear Engineering and Design Eslah
  • Record number

    894933