Contribution to the United States position paper on sodium fires: Design basis and testing

Conference · Wed Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1988

OSTI ID:6650581

McCormack, J D

There were four large-scale sodium fire tests completed to provide a data base for computer code validation; three for the ABCOVE program and one for the SOFICOV program. The purpose of the ABCOVE program is to provide a basis for judging the adequacy of existing aerosol behavior computer codes to describe inherent aerosol attenuation in containment buildings during postulated accidents. The program involves both analytical calculations by code developers and users, and large-scale confirmatory tests in the 850-m/sup 3/ containment vessel of the Containment Systems Test Facility (CSTF) operated by the Westinghouse Hanford Company. A key element of both programs is that all code calculations are made without knowledge of the experimental results, and thus, provide a true measure of the code capabilities without benefit of post-test fitting.

• Research Organization: Westinghouse Hanford Co., Richland, WA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC06-87RL10930
• OSTI ID: 6650581
• Report Number(s): WHC-SA-0344; CONF-8806270-1; ON: DE89001111
• Resource Relation: Conference: International Atomic Energy Agency international working group on fast reactors, Moscow, USSR, 6 Jun 1988; Other Information: Portions of this document are illegible in microfiche products
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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22 GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS
CONTAINMENT BUILDINGS
FIRES
A CODES
AEROSOLS
COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION
CONTAINMENT SYSTEMS EXPERIMENT
DESIGN BASIS ACCIDENTS
PERFORMANCE TESTING
S CODES
SODIUM
ACCIDENTS
ALKALI METALS
BUILDINGS
COLLOIDS
COMPUTER CODES
CONTAINMENT
DISPERSIONS
ELEMENTS
METALS
REACTOR ACCIDENTS
REACTOR SAFETY EXPERIMENTS
SIMULATION
SOLS
TESTING
220900* - Nuclear Reactor Technology- Reactor Safety