Results of Power Burst Facility Appendix K tests. [PWR; BWR]
Conference
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OSTI ID:5590395
This paper presents an overview of the results of the experimental program conducted in the Power Burst Facility (PBF) from 1975 through 1981 for the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and discusses the relationship of those results to selected NRC regulations and safety issues. The mission of the NRC fuel behavior research is to help provide the information and phenomenological understanding needed for establishing effective regulatory policies and practices. LWR fuel failure threshold, failure mechanism, loss of coolable geometry, failure propagation, and fuel-coolant interaction data have been obtained from Power-Cooling-Mismatch (PCM) accident, Reactivity Initiated Accident (RIA) and Loss-of Coolant Accident (LOCA) simulations in the PBF. Fuel rod thermal, mechanical deformation and chemical reaction data have also been obtained and used for computer model development and assessment. The appropriate NRC regulations and safety issues, key results from the PCM, RIA and LOCA tests and evaluation of the NRC regulations are presented.
- Research Organization:
- EG and G Idaho, Inc., Idaho Falls (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC07-76ID01570
- OSTI ID:
- 5590395
- Report Number(s):
- EGG-M-09281; CONF-811042-23; ON: DE82005643
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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