Sub Channel Thermal hydraulics Design Analysis of PWR-KSNP

Sub channel analysis for the fuel element of thermal hydraulics design PWR-KSNP reactor has been carried out. PWR-KSNP reactor is a kind of Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR) Nuclear Power Plant developed by Korea (Korean Standard Nuclear Plant), that produce an electricity power about 1000 MWe. In the analysis, a fuel assembly with 4 fuel rods piled up into matrix 2 x 2, and surrounding by 9 sub channels of coolant, was used as a calculation model. There are 3 models of fuel assembly, i.e. the radial factors in the first model are 1.144, 1.144, 1.120 and 1.121, in the second fuel model are 0.994 , 1.005 , 0.987 and 0.989, and in the third model are 2.500, 1.144, 1.120 and 1.121, respectively. The calculated results using the COBRA IV-I code showed that the maximum cladding temperature revolved by 340.3 - 349.0 ℃, the maximum temperature of meat surface (outer of meat) revolved by 498.1 - 758.2 ℃ and the maximum temperature of meat center revolved by 928.5 - 1843.7 ℃, respectively. Whereas the safety margin against DNBR revolved by 6.50 - 2.05. By maximum meat temperature limit of 2804 ℃ and the minimum DNBR of 1.30, it is concluded that the PWR-KSNP design was in the range of safety. (author)