SASSYS analysis of EBR-II SHRT experiments

Conference · Thu Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1987

OSTI ID:6156233

Hill, D J

SASSYS is a general purpose one-dimensional thermal-hydraulic LMR systems analysis code. The application of SASSYS to studies of protected and unprotected transient analysis of LMR designs, such as PRISM and SAFR, is commonplace. This usage requires that a strong validation base exist for SASSYS. Validation of a code such as SASSYS is made up of a variety of activities such as, application of separate component models to model problems where the solution is analytically known, cross comparison with other codes and, most importantly, comparison with experiment. The EBR-II reactor is being used to perform experiments that address a wide range of LMR safety issues. The most important of these so far have been the SHRT series of experiments, begun in 1984, which culminated in the unprotected loss-of-flow and loss-of-heat sink transients performed as a demonstration to an international audience of fast reactor experts. The SASSYS-1 systems thermal hydraulic code for LMR's has been applied to the analysis of selected EBR-II SHRT experiments. The results show that SASSYS can predict the transient thermal hydraulic and reactivity behavior of EBR-II under these conditions. This contributes to the validation of the modelling of EBR-II with SASSYS and of the code itself.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Lab., IL (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: W-31109-ENG-38
• OSTI ID: 6156233
• Report Number(s): CONF-871101-20; ON: DE87011371
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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