Providing the Basis for Innovative Improvements in Advanced LWR Reactor Passive Safety Systems Design: An Educational R&D Project
This project characterizes typical two-phase stratified flow conditions in advanced water reactor horizontal pipe sections, following activation of passive cooling systems. It provides (1) a means to educate nuclear engineering students regarding the importance of two-phase stratified flow in passive cooling systems to the safety of advanced reactor systems and (2) describes the experimental apparatus and process to measure key parameters essential to consider when designing passive emergency core cooling flow paths that may encounter this flow regime. Based on data collected, the state of analysis capabilities can be determined regarding stratified flow in advanced reactor systems and the best paths forward can be identified to ensure that the nuclear industry can properly characterize two-phase stratified flow in passive emergency core cooling systems.
- Research Organization:
- Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE - Office of Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology (NE)
- DOE Contract Number:
- FG07-03ID14500
- OSTI ID:
- 900897
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/ID/14500; TRN: US0702972
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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