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In-pile TREAT Test L04: simulating a lead sub-assembly in an unprotected LMFBR loss-of-coolant accident

Description

Test L04 in the PFR/TREAT series is the first multi-pin, in-pile simulation of a LMFBR transient undercooling/overpower (TUCOP) accident using full length prototypic fuel irradiated in a fast reactor. L04 is a gridded 7-pin bundle test performed in the ANL Mk-III integral loop in a flowing sodium environment and uses prototypic, bottom plenum, UK reactor fuel, preirradiated in the PFR to an axial peak burn-up of 4.2 a/o. The objective of L04 was the study, by simulation, of coolant voiding and fuel motion during the initiating phase of a hypothetical TUCOP accident in a large LMFBR. Test L04 is intended to study the behavior of a centrally located, lead subassembly with the highest power-to-flow ratio

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MF available from INIS under the Report Number; Available from NTIS, PC A02/MF A01 as DE83014678.

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Publishing Information

Imprint Pagination
5 p.
Report number
CONF-831047--30

Conference

Title
American Nuclear Society winter meeting.
Dates
30 Oct - 4 Nov 1983.
Place
San Francisco, CA (USA).