System Analysis Handbook

This handbook provides simple procedures for calculating the behavior of light water reactors during a variety of incidents. It provides an additional tool for assessment of ongoing and postincident behavior. The handbook consists of a main body describing generic procedures, an appendix providing specific design data for a limited number of plants for application with the procedures, and an appendix listing existing and planned BWR and PWR plants by containment types and thermal-hydraulic parameters. The procedures are currently limited to break flow rate, decay heat power and integrated power, steam generation from decay heat, mass balance, shutdown margin, natural circulation, noncondensable gas generation, dose estimates, DNB evaluation, void formation in the upper head, and torus heatup