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Sakai, Takaaki; Ohshima, Hiroyuki; Yamaguchi, Akira
Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Inst., Tokai, Ibaraki (Japan)2000
Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Inst., Tokai, Ibaraki (Japan)2000
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[en] The feasibility study on several concepts for the commercial fast breeder reactor(FBR) in future has been conducted in JNC for the kinds of possible coolants and fuel types to confirm the direction of the FBR developments in Japan. In this report, Lead and Lead-Bismuth eutectic coolants were estimated for the decay heat removal characteristics by the comparison with sodium coolant that has excellent features for the heat transfer and heat transport performance. Heavy liquid metal coolants, such as Lead and Lead-Bismuth, have desirable chemical inertness for water and atmosphere. Therefore, there are many economical plant proposals without an intermediate heat transport system that prevents the direct effect on a reactor core by the chemical reaction between water and the liquid metal coolant at the hypocritical tube failure accidents in a steam generator. In this study, transient analyses on the thermal-hydraulics have been performed for the decay heat removal events in Equivalent plant' with the Lead, Lead-Bismuth and Sodium coolant by using Super-COPD code. And a resulted optimized lead cooled plant in feasibility study was also analyzed for the comparison. In conclusion, it is become clear that the natural circulation performance, that has an important roll in passive safety characteristic of the reactor, is more excellent in heavy liquid metals than sodium coolant during the decay heat removal transients. However, we need to confirm the heat transfer reduction by the oxidized film or the corrosion products expected to appear on the heat transfer surface in the Lead and Lead-Bismuth circumstance. (author)
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Apr 2000; 152 p; Available from JICST Library (JICST: Japan Science and Technology Corporation, Information Center for Science and Technology), P.O. Box 10 Hikarigaoka, Tokyo 179-9810 Japan, FAX: +81-3-3979-2210, JICST Service Homepage: www.jst.go.jp/EN/JICST/ServiceGuide; 11 refs., 55 figs., 17 tabs.
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