Safety demonstration tests of hypothetical explosive burning in the cell and air ventilation system in a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant
- Japan Atomic Energy Research Inst., Shirakata, Tokai-mura, Nakagun, Ibaraki-ken 319-11 (JP)
This paper reports on a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant equipped with an air ventilation system consisting of cells, ducts, dampers, high-efficiency particulate air filters, and blowers. This ventilation system is required to have multiple safeguards in order to confine airborne radioactive materials within the plant in the event of fire, explosion, and criticality. To evaluate these safeguards, three kinds of explosive burning tests are performed using a large-scale facility simulating the ventilation system of a reprocessing plant. In the boilover test, an organic solvent is burned on a layer of water in a burning pan to determine the magnitude of the burning caused by the sudden boiling of the water under the solvent. The optimum conditions for boilover burning are determined by the relationship between the pan size and the ventilation rate.
- OSTI ID:
- 5671109
- Journal Information:
- Nuclear Technology; (United States), Vol. 95:3; ISSN 0029-5450
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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AIR FILTERS
EFFICIENCY
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DEMONSTRATION PROGRAMS
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OPTIMIZATION
PARTICULATES
PERFORMANCE TESTING
SPENT FUELS
ENERGY SOURCES
EQUIPMENT
FILTERS
FUELS
MATERIALS
NUCLEAR FACILITIES
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PARTICLES
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POWER PLANTS
REACTOR MATERIALS
TESTING
THERMAL POWER PLANTS
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