Release of fission products during controlled loss-of-coolant accidents and hypothetical core meltdown accidents. [PWR; BWR]
A few years ago the Projekt Nukleare Sicherheit joined the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission in the development of a research program which was designed to investigate fission product release from light water reactor fuel under conditions ranging from spent fuel shipping cask accidents to core meltdown accidents. Three laboratories have been involved in this cooperative effort. At Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), the research effort has focused on noble gas fission product release, whereas at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and at Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe (KfK), the studies have emphasized the release of species other than the noble gases. In addition, the ORNL program has been directed toward the development of fission product source terms applicable to analyses of spent fuel shipping cask accidents and controlled loss-of-coolant accidents, and the KfK program has been aimed at providing similar source terms which are characteristic of core meltdown accidents. The ORNL results are presented for fission product release from defected fuel rods into a steam atmosphere over the temperature range 500 to 1200/sup 0/C, and the KfK results for release during core meltdown sequences.
- Research Organization:
- Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe G.m.b.H. (Germany, F.R.); Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-26
- OSTI ID:
- 6515498
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-781147-1; TRN: 79-002863
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 6. meeting of the projekt nukleare sicherheit, Karlsruhe, F.R. Germany, 28 Nov 1978
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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