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Gauntt, R.O.; Humphries, L.L.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC (United States). Div. of Systems Technology; Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (United States); Science Applications International Corp., Albuquerque, NM (United States). Funding organisation: Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC (United States)1997
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC (United States). Div. of Systems Technology; Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (United States); Science Applications International Corp., Albuquerque, NM (United States). Funding organisation: Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC (United States)1997
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[en] This report documents the final results of the XR2-1 boiling water reactor (BWR) metallic melt relocation experiment, conducted at Sandia National Laboratories for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The objective of this experiment was to investigate the material relocation processes and relocation pathways in a dry BWR core following a severe nuclear reactor accident such as an unrecovered station blackout accident. The imposed test conditions (initial thermal state and the melt generation rates) simulated the conditions for the postulated accident scenario and the prototypic design of the lower core test section (in composition and in geometry) ensured that thermal masses and physical flow barriers were modeled adequately. The experiment has shown that, under dry core conditions, the metallic core materials that melt and drain from the upper core regions can drain from the core region entirely without formation of robust coherent blockages in the lower core. Temporary blockages that suspended pools of molten metal later melted, allowing the metals to continue draining downward. The test facility and instrumentation are described in detail. The test progression and results are presented and compared to MERIS code analyses. 6 refs., 55 figs., 4 tabs
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Aug 1997; 175 p; SAND--97-1039; CONTRACT AC04-94AL85000; Also available from OSTI as TI97008702; NTIS; GPO
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