Fission-gas bubble modeling for LMFBR accidents

Conference · Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1977

OSTI ID:7210961

Ostensen, R. W.

The behavior of fission-gas bubbles in unrestructured oxide fuel can have a dominant effect on the course of a core disruptive accident in an LMFBR. The paper describes a simplified model of bubble behavior and presents results of that model in analyzing the relevant physical assumptions and predicting gas behavior in molten fuel.

• Research Organization: Sandia Labs., Albuquerque, N.Mex. (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: EY-76-C-04-0789
• OSTI ID: 7210961
• Report Number(s): SAND-77-1018C; CONF-771109-12; TRN: 78-000239
• Resource Relation: Conference: ANS winter meeting, San Francisco, California, USA, 27 Nov 1977
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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GASES
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