Published 1987 | Version v1
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Modelling of post-failure phenomena in LMFBR accidents

  • 1. CEA Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires de Cadarache, 13 - Saint-Paul-les-Durance (France)

Description

Post-failure events in a LMFBR whole core accident such as a loss of sodium flow without scram strongly influence the reactivity evolution and the coolability of the core. Therefore, we have developed for describing these phenomena the Mocona module, which has been incorporated in the whole core accident code Physurac and validated on Cabri tests and some Capt experiments. Here we give a synthetic view of Mocona modelling and of the comparisons between calculations and experiments, some of which have been presented before. (orig.)

Additional details

Publishing Information

Publisher
Balkema.
Imprint Place
Rotterdam (Netherlands)
ISBN
90-6191-764-6
Imprint Title
Transactions of the 9th international conference on structural mechanics in reactor technology. Vol. C
Imprint Pagination
187 p.
Journal Page Range
p. 171-177.

Conference

Title
9. biennial international conference on structural mechanics in reactor technology (SMIRT-9).
Dates
17-21 Aug 1987.
Place
Lausanne (Switzerland).