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Subchannel code for sodium boiling in LMFBR fuel bundles

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OSTI ID:5564627
The CAPRICORN computer code is being developed with the US Fast Reactor Safety program to predict blockage formation and coalability in fuel pin bundles during core disruptive accidents. This code is an extension of the COBRA family of codes. An extension of the ICE solution procedure is used where the mass and energy conservation equations are solved implicitly for pressure and enthalpy in an inner iteration loop. The CAPRICORN code was used to analyze the final and most severe boiling transient of the W-1 SLSF experiment (an in-reactor simulation of a pipe rupture event). Comparison of the CAPRICORN analysis and experimental data was good enough to warrant further improvement and development of the code.
Research Organization:
Hanford Engineering Development Lab., Richland, WA (USA)
DOE Contract Number:
AC06-76FF02170
OSTI ID:
5564627
Report Number(s):
HEDL-SA-2965-S; CONF-831047-98; ON: DE84001681
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English