PBF experimental program

Conference · Mon Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1979

OSTI ID:6850786

MacDonald, P. E.; Zeile, H. J.

The fuels behavior research in PBF is directed towards providing a detailed understanding of the response of nuclear fuel assemblies to off-normal and hypothetical accident conditions. Single fuel rods and clusters of highly instrumented fuel rods are installed within a central test space of the PBF core for testing. The core can be operated in various modes to provide test conditions typical of accidents and off-normal conditions such as: (1) Power-Cooling-Mismatch (PCM) accidents; (2) Loss-of-Coolant Accident (LOCA); (3) Reactivity-Initiated-Accident (RIA); (4) Operational Transients With and Without Scram (OPTRAN); (5) Small Break LOCAs (SBL). This document provides an overview of each of the PBF test series with emphasis on what has been learned to date and why the remaining tests are being conducted. (DLC)

• Research Organization: EG and G Idaho, Inc., Idaho Falls (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC07-76ID01570
• OSTI ID: 6850786
• Report Number(s): CONF-791118-12
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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