Experience in isolation condenser performance gained by piper-one operation
Description
PIPER-ONE apparatus is an Integral Test Facility simulating the thermalhydraulic behaviour of a Boiling Water Reactor (BWR); it was originally designed to address small break loss of coolant accident related phenomenologies. Following the interest toward advanced reactor technology in Italy, modifications were introduced in the facility making it suitable for reproducing relevant phenomena characterizing the operation of systems like Isolation Condenser of Simplified BWR. Large scale distortions could not be avoided in this research activity and should be considered when drawing conclusions. In the present paper, significant lessons learned from the execution of the experiments on Isolation Condenser performance and from the application of system codes, are summarized. 15 refs., 14 figs., 1 tab
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Publisher
- American Nuclear Society, Inc.
- Imprint Place
- La Grange Park, IL (United States)
- Imprint Title
- Proceedings of the international topical meeting on advanced reactors safety: Volume 2
- Imprint Pagination
- 715 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 1008-1015.
Conference
- Title
- American Nuclear Society (ANS) international meeting on advanced reactors safety.
- Acronym
- ARS '97
- Dates
- 1-5 Jun 1997.
- Place
- Orlando, FL (United States).
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 29021580
- Subject category
- S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- BWR TYPE REACTORS; ISOLATION CONDENSERS; REACTOR SAFETY EXPERIMENTS; TEST FACILITIES
- Descriptors DEC
- ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS; POWER REACTORS; REACTORS; STEAM CONDENSERS; THERMAL REACTORS; VAPOR CONDENSERS; WATER COOLED REACTORS; WATER MODERATED REACTORS
Optional Information
- Secondary number(s)
- CONF-970607--Vol.2.