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Post-accident heat removal ''information exchange''

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OSTI ID:4054592
The in-core molten pool experiments are designed to produce a pool of fission heated temperature and flow patterns of such pools, and evaluate the barrier melt-through potential of the molten UO$sub 2$. The first experiments, to be conducted this fiscal year in the Annular Core Pulse Reactor, will be uncomplicated and multiply-contained to prove containment design and to provide initial information on fission heated molten pool characteristics. Concurrent with the in-core experiments, high temperature ultrasonic techniques are being developed to measure UO$sub 2$ temperatures up to and above the melting point for use in later more definitive experiments scheduled for FY77. (auth)
Research Organization:
Sandia Labs., Albuquerque, N.Mex. (USA)
NSA Number:
NSA-33-028135
OSTI ID:
4054592
Report Number(s):
SAND--75-6102; CONF-751140--2
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English