Title of article
QualificationoftheCFDcodeTrio_UforfullscalereactorapplicationsOriginalResearchArticle
Author/Authors
UlrichBieder، نويسنده , , EstelleGraffard، نويسنده ,
Issue Information
روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2008
Pages
9
From page
671
To page
679
Abstract
ThearticlepresentsaproceduretoqualifytheTrio_UcodeforthepredictionoftheboronconcentrationatthecoreinletofaFrench900MWepressurizedwaterreactorunderaccidentalconditions(inherentdilutionproblem).Theobjectiveofthisprocedureistoensurethatthevalidationcalculationsareperformedwiththesamemodellinghypothesesasthefullscalereactoranalysis,forwhichusuallynoexperimentaldataareavailable.AdensitydrivenROCOMexperimentaswellasanUPTFTram-C3experimenthavebeenusedforthequalificationoftheTrio_Ucode.Bothexperimentspresentsimilarthermalhydraulicconditionsasthereactorcase.ThepredictedboronconcentrationatthecoreinletofthereactorshowsthatthepotentialreturntocriticalitymightnotbeexcludedinthecaseofasmallbreakLOCA.Furtherneutroniccalculationsarenecessarytoconfirmthisresult.
Journal title
Nuclear Engineering and Design Eslah
Serial Year
2008
Journal title
Nuclear Engineering and Design Eslah
Record number
895039
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