Investigation of hydrogen stratification and its application for the assessment of containment failure modes for a BWR Mark III containment during core meltdown accidents

Conference · Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1985

OSTI ID:6250309

Jaung, R; Pratt, W T

The BNL staff have performed an extensive assessment of potential failure modes for core meltdown accidents in a Boiling Water Reactor (BWR) with a Mark III containment. The particular Mark III containment under consideration did not initially include provision for any system to control H/sub 2/ burning, so that H/sub 2/ phenomena were found to be dominant contributors to containment failure. However, all Mark III containments will now have provisions for the control of H/sub 2/ burning, which will influence our current assessment of H/sub 2/ phenomena.

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76CH00016
• OSTI ID: 6250309
• Report Number(s): BNL-NUREG-37675; CONF-851007-17; ON: TI86007128
• Resource Relation: Conference: 3. international meeting on reactor thermal hydraulics, Newport, RI, USA, 15 Oct 1985
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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