Some basic thermohydraulic calculation methods for the analysis of pressure transients in a multicompartment total containment enclosing a breached water reactor circuit

This paper gives an appreciation and commentary of the basic calculation methods under development at AEE Winfrith for the analysis of multicompartment total containments. The assumptions introduced and the effects of their variation are important in establishing a parametric survey of the range of possible conditions which the containment may be required to meet. These aspects of the performance will be discussed as each individual factor in the train of events is examined in turn. (U.K.)