Published February 1986 | Version v1
Report

Status of the LWR aerosol containment experiments (LACE) program

  • 1. Westinghouse Hanford Co., Richland, WA

Description

The LACE program, sponsored by an international consortium, is investigating inherent aerosol behavior for three postulated high consequence accident sequences: the containment bypass or V-sequence, failure to isolate containment, and delayed containment failure. Six large-scale tests are described which focus on these accident situations and which will be completed in the Containment Systems Test Facility at the Hanford Engineering Development Laboratory. The aerosol generation systems used to generate soluble and insoluble aerosols for the large-scale tests are described. The report then focuses on those tests which deal with the containment bypass accident sequence. Test results are presented and discussed for three containment bypass scoping tests

Additional details

Publishing Information

Imprint Title
Thirteenth water reactor safety research information meeting: proceedings. Volume 6
Journal Page Range
p. 27-40.
Report number
NUREG/CP--0072-Vol.6

Conference

Title
13. water reactor safety research information meeting.
Dates
22-25 Oct 1985.
Place
Gaithersburg, MD (USA).