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Title: Peach Bottom turbine-trip Test 3 analysis with RELAP5 code

Abstract

The Peach Bottom turbine trip tests provide excellent benchmark problems for transient analysis of a boiling water reactor (BWR). Analyses of the three turbine trip tests with the RELAP3B/BNL-TWIGL, RETRAN and other codes have been documented. The non-equilibrium, two fluid thermal-hydraulic code-RELAP5/MOD1 was recently used to analyze the test at low power, Test 1. This paper presents the analysis of the more severe transient, Test 3, with the RELAP5 code and provides a comparison of the calculated water level with the measurement. In addition, a method has been developed to expedite the establishment of a steady state condition via the plant control system and simple computer code modifications. Using the results of this analysis, the capability of the RELAP5 code will be assessed and the areas requiring further improvement will be shown.

Authors:
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (USA)
OSTI Identifier:
5701557
Report Number(s):
BNL-NUREG-33280; CONF-831047-44
ON: DE83015151
DOE Contract Number:  
AC02-76CH00016
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: American Nuclear Society winter meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA, 30 Oct 1983
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
22 GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS; 21 SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS; BWR TYPE REACTORS; TRANSIENTS; HEAT TRANSFER; HYDRAULICS; COMPUTER CALCULATIONS; PRESSURE GRADIENTS; REACTOR SAFETY; STEAM TURBINES; ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUID MECHANICS; MACHINERY; MECHANICS; REACTORS; SAFETY; TURBINES; TURBOMACHINERY; WATER COOLED REACTORS; WATER MODERATED REACTORS; 220900* - Nuclear Reactor Technology- Reactor Safety; 210100 - Power Reactors, Nonbreeding, Light-Water Moderated, Boiling Water Cooled

Citation Formats

Lu, M S. Peach Bottom turbine-trip Test 3 analysis with RELAP5 code. United States: N. p., 1983. Web.
Lu, M S. Peach Bottom turbine-trip Test 3 analysis with RELAP5 code. United States.
Lu, M S. 1983. "Peach Bottom turbine-trip Test 3 analysis with RELAP5 code". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/5701557.
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abstractNote = {The Peach Bottom turbine trip tests provide excellent benchmark problems for transient analysis of a boiling water reactor (BWR). Analyses of the three turbine trip tests with the RELAP3B/BNL-TWIGL, RETRAN and other codes have been documented. The non-equilibrium, two fluid thermal-hydraulic code-RELAP5/MOD1 was recently used to analyze the test at low power, Test 1. This paper presents the analysis of the more severe transient, Test 3, with the RELAP5 code and provides a comparison of the calculated water level with the measurement. In addition, a method has been developed to expedite the establishment of a steady state condition via the plant control system and simple computer code modifications. Using the results of this analysis, the capability of the RELAP5 code will be assessed and the areas requiring further improvement will be shown.},
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year = {Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1983},
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