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Title: Experiment-specific analyses in support of code development

Abstract

Experiment-specific models have been developed since 1986 by Oak Ridge National Laboratory Boiling Water Reactor (BWR) severe accident analysis programs for the purpose of BWR experimental planning and optimum interpretation of experimental results. These experiment-specific models have been applied to large integral tests (ergo, experiments) which start from an initial undamaged core state. The tests performed to date in BWR geometry have had significantly different-from-prototypic boundary and experimental conditions because of either normal facility limitations or specific experimental constraints. These experiments (ACRR: DF-4, NRU: FLHT-6, and CORA) were designed to obtain specific phenomenological information such as the degradation and interaction of prototypic components and the effects on melt progression of control-blade materials and channel boxes. Applications of ORNL models specific to the ACRR DF-4 and KfK CORA-16 experiments are discussed and significant findings from the experimental analyses are presented. 32 refs., 16 figs.

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (USA)
Sponsoring Org.:
USNRC
OSTI Identifier:
6157226
Report Number(s):
CONF-901085-6
ON: DE91005908; TRN: 91-001714
DOE Contract Number:  
AC05-84OR21400
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: 7. international seminar on polymer physics: thin polymeric layers, Guentersberge (Germany, F.R.), 22-26 Oct 1990
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
22 GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS; 21 SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS; 99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE; BWR TYPE REACTORS; MELTDOWN; B CODES; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; COMPUTER CODES; CONTROL ELEMENTS; CORIUM; EXPERIMENT PLANNING; FUEL ELEMENTS; HEAT TRANSFER; HYDRAULICS; OXIDATION; R CODES; REACTOR SAFETY; S CODES; STEAM; VALIDATION; ZIRCALOY; ACCIDENTS; ALLOYS; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUID MECHANICS; KINETICS; MECHANICS; PLANNING; REACTION KINETICS; REACTOR ACCIDENTS; REACTOR COMPONENTS; REACTORS; SAFETY; TESTING; WATER COOLED REACTORS; WATER MODERATED REACTORS; ZIRCONIUM ALLOYS; ZIRCONIUM BASE ALLOYS; 220900* - Nuclear Reactor Technology- Reactor Safety; 210100 - Power Reactors, Nonbreeding, Light-Water Moderated, Boiling Water Cooled; 990200 - Mathematics & Computers

Citation Formats

Ott, L J. Experiment-specific analyses in support of code development. United States: N. p., 1990. Web.
Ott, L J. Experiment-specific analyses in support of code development. United States.
Ott, L J. 1990. "Experiment-specific analyses in support of code development". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/6157226.
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abstractNote = {Experiment-specific models have been developed since 1986 by Oak Ridge National Laboratory Boiling Water Reactor (BWR) severe accident analysis programs for the purpose of BWR experimental planning and optimum interpretation of experimental results. These experiment-specific models have been applied to large integral tests (ergo, experiments) which start from an initial undamaged core state. The tests performed to date in BWR geometry have had significantly different-from-prototypic boundary and experimental conditions because of either normal facility limitations or specific experimental constraints. These experiments (ACRR: DF-4, NRU: FLHT-6, and CORA) were designed to obtain specific phenomenological information such as the degradation and interaction of prototypic components and the effects on melt progression of control-blade materials and channel boxes. Applications of ORNL models specific to the ACRR DF-4 and KfK CORA-16 experiments are discussed and significant findings from the experimental analyses are presented. 32 refs., 16 figs.},
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year = {Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1990},
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