Published 1977 | Version v1
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Safety evaluation of inlet-tube break for a pressure tube type reactor

  • 1. Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corp., Tokyo (Japan)
  • 2. Hitachi Ltd., Ibaraki (Japan). Hitachi Works

Description

The safety evaluation of an inlet tube break for the pressure tube reactor, FUGEN is described. The investigation was conducted by using the computer code SENHOR and the experimental results obtained at the Oarai Engineering Center, PNC. It was found that, for a smaller rupture at the inlet tube with a small leakage (<= 10 kg/s), sufficient core flow is expected even in the ruptured channel and the minimum critical heat flux ratio is expected to remain above 1.0 under full power operating condition. A postulated inlet tube break accident with large leakage (>10 kg/s) is also evaluated in comparison with the experiment. (author)

Additional details

Publishing Information

Publisher
Mechanical Engineering Pub. for the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
Imprint Place
London
ISBN
0 85298 379 4
Imprint Title
Heat and fluid flow in water reactor safety. Conference sponsored by the Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics Group of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Manchester, 13-15 September 1977
Journal Issue
no. 8
Series
IMechE Conference Publications 1977.
Journal Page Range
p. 125-130.

Conference

Title
Conference on heat and fluid flow in water reactor safety.
Dates
13 - 15 Sep 1977.
Place
Manchester, UK.