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Yang Yanhua; Moriyama, K.; Maruyama, Y.; Nakamura, H.; Hashimoto, K.
Proceedings of the workshop on severe accident research, Japan (SARJ-99)2000
Proceedings of the workshop on severe accident research, Japan (SARJ-99)2000
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[en] The propagation of steam explosion for real reactor geometry and conditions are investigated by using the computer code JASMINE-pro. The ex-vessel steam explosion is considered, which is described as follow: during the accident of reactor core meltdown, the molten core melts a hole at the bottom of reactor vessel and causes the higher temperature core fuel being leaked into the water pool below reactor vessel. During the melt-water mixing interaction process, the high temperature melt evaporates the cool water at an extreme high rate and might induce a steam explosion. A steam explosion could experience first the premixing phase and then the propagation explosion phase. For a propagation calculation, we should know the information about the initial fragmentation time, the total melt mass, premixing region size, initial void fraction and distribution of the melt volume fraction, and so on. All the initial conditions used in this calculation are based on analyses from some simple assumptions and the observation from the experiments. The results show that the most important parameter for the initial condition of this phase is the total mass and its initial distribution. This gives the requirement for a premixing calculation. On the other hand, for higher melt volume fraction case, the fragmentation is strong so that the local pressure can exceed over the EOS maximum pressure of the code, which lead to the incorrect calculation or divergence of the calculation. (Suetake, M.)
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Hashimoto, Kazuichiro (ed.); Japan Atomic Energy Research Inst., Tokyo (Japan); 377 p; Nov 2000; p. 68-73; SARJ-99: workshop on severe accident research, Japan; Tokyo (Japan); 8-10 Nov 1999; 16 figs., 3 tabs.
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