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Safety against releases in severe accidents. Final report

Abstract

The work scope of the RAK-2 project has involved research on quantification of the effects of selected severe accident phenomena for Nordic nuclear power plants, development and testing of a computerised accident management support system and data collection and description of various mobile reactors and of different reactor types existing in the UK. The investigations of severe accident phenomena focused mainly on in-vessel melt progression, covering a numerical assessment of coolability of a degraded BWR core, the possibility and consequences of a BWR reactor to become critical during reflooding and the core melt behavior in the reactor vessel lower plenum. Simulant experiments were carried out to investigate lower head hole ablation induced by debris discharge. In addition to the in-vessel phenomena, a limited study on containment response to high pressure melt ejection in a BWR and a comparative study on fission product source term behaviour in a Swedish PWR were performed. An existing computerised accident management support system (CAMS) was further developed in the area of tracking and predictive simulation, signal validation, state identification and user interface. The first version of a probabilistic safety analysis module was developed and implemented in the system. CAMS was tested in practice with Barsebaeck  More>>
Authors:
Lindholm, I; Berg, Oe; Nonboel, E [1] 
  1. eds.
Publication Date:
Dec 01, 1997
Product Type:
Technical Report
Report Number:
NKS-FR-2(97)
Reference Number:
SCA: 210100; 210200; 990400; PA: AIX-30:013853; EDB-99:078552; SN: 99002073396
Resource Relation:
Other Information: DN: 39 refs.; PBD: Dec 1997
Subject:
21 SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS; 99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE; AFTER-HEAT REMOVAL; BWR TYPE REACTORS; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; DESIGN BASIS ACCIDENTS; EMERGENCY PLANS; MANAGEMENT; MELTDOWN; MITIGATION; PWR TYPE REACTORS; REACTOR ACCIDENTS; REACTOR SAFETY; SCANDINAVIA; SOURCE TERMS; 210100; 210200; 990400; POWER REACTORS, NONBREEDING, LIGHT-WATER MODERATED, BOILING WATER COOLED; POWER REACTORS, NONBREEDING, LIGHT-WATER MODERATED, NONBOILING WATER COOLED; LAW
OSTI ID:
10147509
Research Organizations:
Nordisk Kernesikkerhedsforskning, Roskilde (Denmark)
Country of Origin:
Denmark
Language:
English
Other Identifying Numbers:
Other: ON: DE99618042; CNN: Contract NKS/RAK-2; ISBN 87-7893-022-7; TRN: DK9900027013853
Availability:
OSTI; NTIS; INIS
Submitting Site:
DKN
Size:
[98] p.
Announcement Date:
Sep 09, 1999

Citation Formats

Lindholm, I, Berg, Oe, and Nonboel, E. Safety against releases in severe accidents. Final report. Denmark: N. p., 1997. Web.
Lindholm, I, Berg, Oe, & Nonboel, E. Safety against releases in severe accidents. Final report. Denmark.
Lindholm, I, Berg, Oe, and Nonboel, E. 1997. "Safety against releases in severe accidents. Final report." Denmark.
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title = {Safety against releases in severe accidents. Final report}
author = {Lindholm, I, Berg, Oe, and Nonboel, E}
abstractNote = {The work scope of the RAK-2 project has involved research on quantification of the effects of selected severe accident phenomena for Nordic nuclear power plants, development and testing of a computerised accident management support system and data collection and description of various mobile reactors and of different reactor types existing in the UK. The investigations of severe accident phenomena focused mainly on in-vessel melt progression, covering a numerical assessment of coolability of a degraded BWR core, the possibility and consequences of a BWR reactor to become critical during reflooding and the core melt behavior in the reactor vessel lower plenum. Simulant experiments were carried out to investigate lower head hole ablation induced by debris discharge. In addition to the in-vessel phenomena, a limited study on containment response to high pressure melt ejection in a BWR and a comparative study on fission product source term behaviour in a Swedish PWR were performed. An existing computerised accident management support system (CAMS) was further developed in the area of tracking and predictive simulation, signal validation, state identification and user interface. The first version of a probabilistic safety analysis module was developed and implemented in the system. CAMS was tested in practice with Barsebaeck data in a safety exercise with the Swedish nuclear authority. The descriptions of the key features of British reactor types, AGR, Magnox, FBR and PWR were published as data reports. Separate reports were issued also on accidents in nuclear ships and on description of key features of satellite reactors. The collected data were implemented in a common Nordic database. (au) 39 refs.}
place = {Denmark}
year = {1997}
month = {Dec}
}