TUCOP failure threshold test CO6R
Abstract
The C06R test was the sixth single-pin test in the collaborative US/UK PFR/TREAT transient testing program. It was designed to study the mechanism, time and location of cladding failure and first fuel escape in an intermediate channel transient undercooling - overpower accident (TUCOP). It complements the LO5/sup 2/ and LO7/sup 3/ tests which studied post failure fuel dispersal in a similar hypothetical accident. The test fuel was a single irradiated driver fuel pin taken from the UK's Prototype Fast Reactor (PFR) after approx.4% peak burnup. The C06R test has produced evidence that both pre and post failure internal fuel motions produce net fuel worth decreases that would help mitigate a TUCOP accident in an LMFBR. Furthermore, the high axial failure location will prevent worth increases even if emergent fuel momentarily accumulates at the failure site before it disperses upward.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Hanford Engineering Development Lab., Richland, WA (USA)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 6188112
- Report Number(s):
- HEDL-SA-3182; CONF-841105-71
ON: DE86001555
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC06-76FF02170
- Resource Type:
- Conference
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Joint meeting of the American Nuclear Society and the Atomic Industrial Forum, Washington, DC, USA, 11 Nov 1984
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 22 GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS; 21 SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS; LMFBR TYPE REACTORS; FUEL ELEMENT FAILURE; TRANSIENT OVERPOWER ACCIDENTS; REACTOR SAFETY EXPERIMENTS; THERMAL STRESSES; FUEL CANS; FUEL PINS; RESEARCH PROGRAMS; ACCIDENTS; BREEDER REACTORS; EPITHERMAL REACTORS; FAST REACTORS; FBR TYPE REACTORS; FUEL ELEMENTS; LIQUID METAL COOLED REACTORS; REACTOR ACCIDENTS; REACTOR COMPONENTS; REACTORS; STRESSES; 220900* - Nuclear Reactor Technology- Reactor Safety; 210500 - Power Reactors, Breeding
Citation Formats
Culley, G.E., Ferrell, P.C., Herbert, R, and Woods, W J. TUCOP failure threshold test CO6R. United States: N. p., 1984.
Web.
Culley, G.E., Ferrell, P.C., Herbert, R, & Woods, W J. TUCOP failure threshold test CO6R. United States.
Culley, G.E., Ferrell, P.C., Herbert, R, and Woods, W J. Sun .
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@article{osti_6188112,
title = {TUCOP failure threshold test CO6R},
author = {Culley, G.E., Ferrell, P.C. and Herbert, R and Woods, W J},
abstractNote = {The C06R test was the sixth single-pin test in the collaborative US/UK PFR/TREAT transient testing program. It was designed to study the mechanism, time and location of cladding failure and first fuel escape in an intermediate channel transient undercooling - overpower accident (TUCOP). It complements the LO5/sup 2/ and LO7/sup 3/ tests which studied post failure fuel dispersal in a similar hypothetical accident. The test fuel was a single irradiated driver fuel pin taken from the UK's Prototype Fast Reactor (PFR) after approx.4% peak burnup. The C06R test has produced evidence that both pre and post failure internal fuel motions produce net fuel worth decreases that would help mitigate a TUCOP accident in an LMFBR. Furthermore, the high axial failure location will prevent worth increases even if emergent fuel momentarily accumulates at the failure site before it disperses upward.},
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