Published 1977
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Dynamic boiling tests in a 19-pin simulated LMFBR fuel assembly
Description
A series of quasi-steady state tests were made to study dynamic boiling and to determine a boiling region which would not lead to immediate dryout and pin failure in the Thermal-Hydraulic Out-of-Reactor Safety (THORS) Facility (previously the Fuel Failure Mockup), an engineering-scale sodium loop for testing simulated LMFBR fuel assemblies at normal and off-normal operating conditions. These tests were made on an assembly consisting of 19 electrically heated pins of the same configuration as FFTF fuel. Approximately 50 flow transients were so conducted to boiling or near boiling over a range of flows and powers. Dryout occurred at three test conditions
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MF available from INIS under the Report Number; Available from NTIS., PC A02/MF A01.
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Publishing Information
- Imprint Pagination
- 22 p.
- Report number
- CONF-771109--77
Conference
- Title
- ANS winter meeting.
- Dates
- 27 Nov - 2 Dec 1977.
- Place
- San Francisco, CA, USA.
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 9379822
- Subject category
- S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- BOILING; FUEL ASSEMBLIES; FUEL PINS; HEAT TRANSFER; HYDRAULICS; LIQUID FLOW; LMFBR TYPE REACTORS; MOCKUP; PERFORMANCE TESTING; SODIUM; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION
- Descriptors DEC
- ALKALI METALS; BREEDER REACTORS; DISTRIBUTION; ELEMENTS; ENERGY TRANSFER; EPITHERMAL REACTORS; FAST REACTORS; FBR TYPE REACTORS; FLUID FLOW; FUEL ELEMENTS; LIQUID METAL COOLED REACTORS; METALS; PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS; REACTOR COMPONENTS; REACTORS; STRUCTURAL MODELS; TESTING