Effects of subcooling and rod drop speed on the BWR rod drop accident

Conference · Fri Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1982

OSTI ID:5338978

Cokinos, D; Carew, J; Aronson, A

The techniques and models used in the analysis of the control rod drop accident (CRDA) in a BWR have ranged from approximate conservative methods with a simple feedback model to detailed representations of the thermal-hydraulic and neutronic mechanisms. In a recent paper Cheng and Diamond presented a detailed evaluation of the CRDA and the effects of varying a number of important accident parameters. Their calculations performed with the BNL-TWIGL core dynamics code, have shown that the effect of inlet subcooling and rod drop speed play an important role in determining the severity of the rod drop accident. The purpose of the work summarized in this paper has been to determine in detail the dependence of the rod drop accident parameters on the (1) inlet subcooling; and (2) rod drop speed.

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76CH00016
• OSTI ID: 5338978
• Report Number(s): BNL-NUREG-30722; CONF-820609-10; ON: DE82010624
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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