Features of postfailure fuel behavior in transient overpower and transient undercooled/overpower tests in the transient reactor test facility

Journal Article · Wed Apr 01 04:00:00 EST 1992 · Nuclear Technology; (United States)

OSTI ID:5660208

Doerner, R C; Bauer, T H; Morman, J A; Holland, J W ^[1]

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1. Argonne National Lab., Argonne, IL (US)

Prototypic oxide fuel was subjected to simulated, fast reactor severe accident conditions in a series of in-pile tests in the Transient Reactor Test Facility reactor. Seven experiments were performed on fresh and previously irradiated oxide fuel pins under transient overpower and transient undercooled. overpower accident conditions. For each of the tests, fuel motions were observed by the hodoscope. Hodoscope data are correlated with coolant flow, pressure, and temperature data recorded by the loop instrumentation. Data were analyzed from the onset of initial failure to a final mass distribution at the end of the test. In this paper results of these analyses are compared to pre- and posttest accident calculations and to posttest metallographic accident calculations and to posttest metallographic examinations and computed tomographic reconstructions from neutron radiographs.

• OSTI ID: 5660208
• Journal Information: Nuclear Technology; (United States), Journal Name: Nuclear Technology; (United States) Vol. 98:1; ISSN 0029-5450; ISSN NUTYB
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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ACCIDENTS
CHALCOGENIDES
COOLANT LOOPS
COOLING SYSTEMS
DATA
DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES
DISTRIBUTION
EXPERIMENT PLANNING
FLUID FLOW
FUEL ELEMENT FAILURE
FUEL ELEMENTS
FUEL PINS
HODOSCOPES
INDUSTRIAL RADIOGRAPHY
INFORMATION
MASS
NEUTRON RADIOGRAPHY
OXIDES
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
PLANNING
REACTOR ACCIDENTS
REACTOR COMPONENTS
REACTOR SAFETY
SAFETY
SIMULATION
TEST FACILITIES
TESTING
TOMOGRAPHY
TRANSIENT OVERPOWER ACCIDENTS