Benchmark Exercise Report for Experimental Study of Bubble Scrubbing in Sodium Pool
- Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
Mechanistic source term (MST) analyses are likely to be an important part of advanced reactor licensing applications. For the purpose, an MST analysis code applicable to newly introduced advanced reactors, called SRT (Simplified Radionuclide Transport) code, has been developed by Argonne National Laboratory. SRT can track overall behaviors of radionuclides especially in metal fuel-based sodium fast reactors (SFRs) and microreactors. Throughout the simulation, migration inside fuel pins before failure, interaction with coolant (for SFR), removal/leakage in cover gas and containment (or confinement), and environmental dose impacts are considered alongside radioactive decay for short-lived nuclides. Among the postulated process, pool scrubbing phenomenon, especially under sodium pool condition, has been identified as high importance with limited supportive data. The phenomenon plays a crucial role in assessing the degree of radiological impacts as radioactive aerosols or vapors are efficiently and effectively removed during the process. To provide validation basis for SRT in assessing pool scrubbing performance inside sodium pools, the University of Wisconsin-Madison performed tests including extensive parametric effects. Separate effect tests were conducted to directly evaluate the SRT models and to estimate degree of contribution by each contributing factor. Specifically, bubble size, aerosol size, aerosol density, aerosol concentration, pool depth, system temperature, and bubble swarm effects were considered. According to the parametric effects, decontamination performance enhances with decreasing bubble size, large density, and deeper pool height. Aerosol concentration provides no effect for the whole range of interest, and pool temperature variation shows minor effects under the considered temperature condition. When multiple bubbles are injected generating a bubble swarm condition, DF performance further enhances by bubble interactions and turbulence characteristics. The measurement shows the exceptional importance of aerosol size range considered, with the lowest decontamination, where most radionuclides are expected to escape.
- Research Organization:
- Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-06CH11357;
- OSTI ID:
- 3012640
- Report Number(s):
- ANL/NSE--25/30; 201703
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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