Performance characterization of the isolation condenser of an SBWR

Conference · Wed Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1992 · Transactions of the American Nuclear Society; (United States)

OSTI ID:6684616

Khan, H J; Rohatgi, U S ^[1]

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1. Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (United States)

The isolation condenser (IC) of a conceptual design of a simplified boiling water reactor (SBWR) has been modeled to study its performance under various operating conditions. There are two types of IC: the system IC is designed to passively limit the reactor pressure under accident conditions and the containment IC to remove the decay heat after a loss-of-coolant accident. A stand-alone computer code has been developed for simulating the two types of ICs to be utilized by the SBWR. The variations of the boundary conditions include (a) change in the initial liquid level in the IC, (b) change in initial line pressure loss, (c) change in the cooling capacity of the IC pool, and (d) variation of pressure in the steam line.

• OSTI ID: 6684616
• Report Number(s): CONF-921102--
• Conference Information: Journal Name: Transactions of the American Nuclear Society; (United States) Journal Volume: 66
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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