Irradiation facility for temperature transient and cycling experiments of HTR fuel elements
Creators
- 1. Commission of the European Communities, Petten (Netherlands). Joint Nuclear Research Center
Description
Accident analysis of High Temperature Reactor (HTR) spherical fuel elements is focussed on investigation of temperature transient conditions after failure of the main heat sinks, either at system pressure or after depressurization, under different fuelling schemes, e.g. single pass (OTTO) or multiple pass (Modul-HTR). JRC Petten has developed an irradiation facility to simulate temperature transients for HTR fuel elements under realistic operating conditions with simultaneous analysis of gaseous fission product release rates. Typical transient parameters range to about 16000C within 100 hours. The tests can be performed under steady nuclear conditions. The irradiation facility covers requirements for power ramp tests. This paper describes the irradiation facility and presents a thermal analysis for early and late in life case studies. (Auth.)
Additional details
Additional titles
- Augmented title (English)
- TETRASI
Publishing Information
- Publisher
- D. Reidel.
- Imprint Place
- Dordrecht (Netherlands)
- ISBN
- 90-277-1568-8
- Imprint Title
- Irradiation technology
- Imprint Pagination
- 759 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 499-508.
Conference
- Title
- International Topical Meeting on Irradiation Technology.
- Dates
- 28-30 Sep 1982.
- Place
- Grenoble (France).
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- Netherlands
- INIS RN
- 15028637
- Subject category
- S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference, Numerical Data
- Descriptors DEI
- EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FUEL ELEMENTS; HTGR TYPE REACTORS; IRRADIATION DEVICES; SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TRANSIENTS
- Descriptors DEC
- DATA; GAS COOLED REACTORS; GRAPHITE MODERATED REACTORS; INFORMATION; NUMERICAL DATA; REACTOR COMPONENTS; REACTORS
Optional Information
- Notes
- 6 figs.; 1 table; 2 diagrams. Imprint:Includes author index and list of participants.