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Development of thermal-hydraulic design code for transmutation system with lead-bismuth cooled accelerator driven reactor

Creators

  • 1. Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Sector of Nuclear Science Research, Nuclear Science and Engineering Center, Tokai, Ibaraki (Japan)

Description

A thermal-hydraulic analysis code for transmutation system with lead-bismuth cooled accelerator-driven system (ADS) has been developed using the Japanese-version of Transient Analysis Code (J-TRAC) as the framework in order to apply the design studies of ADS. To identify the required capabilities of the thermal-hydraulic analysis code for ADS, previous thermal-hydraulic analyses of pressurized water reactor, boiling water reactor, sodium-cooled fast reactor and ADS have been surveyed. To make up for insufficient capabilities of the J-TRAC code as a thermal-hydraulic analysis code of ADS, physical properties of lead-bismuth eutectic (LBE), argon gas and nitride nuclear fuel were implemented to the J-TRAC code. It was confirmed that the implemented capabilities worked as expected through verification calculations on (1) the pressure loss in a single-phase LBE flow, (2) the heat transfer in a fuel assembly including nitride nuclear fuel, and (3) the heat transfer between LBE and water in a steam generator. (author)

Availability note (English)

Available from JAEA; DOI: https://doi.org/10.11484/jaea-data-code-2014-031

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Identifiers

DOI
10.11484/jaea-data-code-2014-031;

Publishing Information

Imprint Pagination
86 p.
Report number
JAEA-Data/Code--2014-031

INIS

Country of Publication
Japan
Country of Input or Organization
Japan
INIS RN
46136557
Subject category
S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
Descriptors DEI
ACCELERATOR DRIVEN TRANSMUTATION; BISMUTH BASE ALLOYS; COOLANTS; FUEL ASSEMBLIES; HEAT TRANSFER; J CODES; LEAD ALLOYS; LIQUID METALS; MIXED NITRIDE FUELS; STEAM GENERATORS; THERMAL HYDRAULICS; TWO-PHASE FLOW
Descriptors DEC
ALLOYS; BISMUTH ALLOYS; BOILERS; COMPUTER CODES; ELEMENTS; ENERGY SOURCES; ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUID FLOW; FLUID MECHANICS; FLUIDS; FUELS; HYDRAULICS; LIQUIDS; MATERIALS; MECHANICS; METALS; NUCLEAR FUELS; REACTOR MATERIALS; SOLID FUELS; TRANSMUTATION; VAPOR GENERATORS

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