Published June 1997
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Journal article
The first results from the ACOPO experiment
- 1. California Univ., Santa Barbara, CA (United States). Center for Risk Studies and Safety
Description
The ACOPO experiment simulates natural convection heat transfer from volumetrically heated pools, at a half-scale reactor lower head geometry (hemispherical). Data for Rayleigh numbers of up to 2.1016, from the first round of experiments, are presented in this paper. The results are in substantial agreement with those of the mini-ACOPO proof-of-concept experiment. Moreover, it is shown that these ACOPO results confirm a key component of the in-vessel retention capability for an AP600-like design, as recently established in DOE/ID-10460. (orig.)
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Nuclear Engineering and Design
- Journal Volume
- 169
- Journal Issue
- 1-3
- Series
- Special issue on in-vessel retention.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 49-57.
- ISSN
- 0029-5493
- CODEN
- NEDEAU
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- Switzerland
- INIS RN
- 28057219
- Subject category
- S22: GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS;
- Descriptors DEI
- COOLING; NATURAL CONVECTION; PRESSURE VESSELS; REACTOR ACCIDENTS; REACTOR VESSELS; TEST FACILITIES
- Descriptors DEC
- ACCIDENTS; CONTAINERS; CONVECTION; ENERGY TRANSFER; HEAT TRANSFER