Published October 1979
| Version v1
Report
A comparison of the sodium-UO2 results with the spontaneous nucleation theory
Creators
- 1. Argonne National Laboratory, Reactor Analysis and Safety Division, Argonne, Illinois (United States)
Description
The available molten uranium dioxide-sodium interaction test results are compared to the predicted behavior for a sodium entrapment, homogeneous nucleation mechanism. This mechanism is found to be in accord with the reported pressures, delay times, impulses, and mechanical work for the limited scale experiments in which significant interactions are observed. For large scale experiments, this mechanism would not yield any significant energy release, which is also in agreement with the available experimental results
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Imprint Title
- Proceedings of the fourth CSNI specialist meeting on fuel-coolant interaction in nuclear reactor safety - Volumes 2+3
- Imprint Pagination
- 493 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 159-187
- Report number
- NEA-CSNI-R--1979-37
Conference
- Title
- 4. CSNI specialist meeting on fuel-coolant interaction in nuclear reactor safety
- Dates
- 2-5 Apr 1979
- Place
- Bournemouth (United Kingdom)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Nuclear Energy Agency of the OECD (NEA)
- Country of Input or Organization
- Nuclear Energy Agency of the OECD (NEA)
- INIS RN
- 42006258
- Subject category
- S22: GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- BENCH-SCALE EXPERIMENTS; EXPLOSIONS; FIELD TESTS; FRAGMENTATION; FUEL-COOLANT INTERACTIONS; HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLTEN METAL-WATER REACTIONS; NEA; NUCLEATE BOILING; NUCLEATION; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PULSATIONS; REACTOR ACCIDENTS; REACTOR SAFETY; REACTOR SAFETY EXPERIMENTS; SODIUM; URANIUM DIOXIDE; USA
- Descriptors DEC
- ACCIDENTS; ACTINIDE COMPOUNDS; ALKALI METALS; BOILING; CHALCOGENIDES; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ELEMENTS; ENERGY TRANSFER; INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; METALS; NORTH AMERICA; OECD; OXIDES; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS; SAFETY; TESTING; URANIUM COMPOUNDS; URANIUM OXIDES
Optional Information
- Notes
- 41 refs.