Study of safety relief valve operation under ATWS conditions

In March 1979, the NRC published a report (NUREG/CR-0687) prepared by the Energy Technology Engineering Center (ETEC-TDR-78-19). That report presented a literature survey which updated earlier NRC studies of saturated or subcooled water flow through relief valves, under ATWS conditions. This supplement expands upon that search to include supercritical steam-water flow. No applicable data for the supercritical conditions were found, nor were any newer data on saturated or subcooled conditions uncovered. This supplement also updates a look for facilities currently capable of simultaneously imposing all ATWS conditions upon test relief valves. Results confirmed the negative findings of NUREG/CR-0687