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Soares, Humberto V.; Costa, Antonella L.; Pereira, Claubia; Veloso, Maria Auxiliadora F.; Reis, Patricia A.L.
Associacao Brasileira de Energia Nuclear, Rio de Janeiro, RJ (Brazil)2009
Associacao Brasileira de Energia Nuclear, Rio de Janeiro, RJ (Brazil)2009
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[en] Nowadays, the design of reactors having appropriate stability margins, the adoption of operating procedures avoiding possible unstable regions and the development of mitigation strategies to cope with inadvertent instability occurrences have strongly limited safety concerns in this regard. However, despite the obvious need for plant-specific Probabilistic Safety Assessment (PSA), BWR (boiling water reactor) transients of general interest can be identified and characterized as for example, overpressurization events, Large Break Loss of Coolant Accidents (LBLOCAs), feedwater temperature decrease, increase of core flow, main circulation pump flow rate increase, control rod withdrawal and others. Simulations of these complex scenarios have been improved by the utilization of coupled thermal-hydraulic (TH) and neutron kinetics (NK) system codes. In this work, the RELAP5/MOD3.3 thermal-hydraulic system code and the PARCS/2.4 3D neutron kinetic code have been adopted to predict the Peach Bottom BWR stability during recirculation pumps trip while the reactor is operating in a special region of power and core flow map. In the recirculation pump trip event, the stopping of the recirculation pumps causes a sharp decrease in the core flow, which generates a considerable negative reactivity insertion that tends to reduce power and, consequently, the amount of steam generated. The BWR reactor stability has been valuated during natural circulation conditions after the pumps trip event. The time evolution of the power and the related thermal-hydraulic parameters were investigated to analyse the behavior of the reactor for this special operation condition. (author)
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2009; [12 p.]; INAC 2009: International nuclear atlantic conference. Innovations in Nuclear Technology for a Sustainable Future; Rio de Janeiro, RJ (Brazil); 27 Sep - 2 Oct 2009; 16. Brazilian national meeting on reactor physics and thermal hydraulics; Rio de Janeiro, RJ (Brazil); 27 Sep - 2 Oct 2009; 9. Brazilian national meeting on nuclear applications; Rio de Janeiro, RJ (Brazil); 27 Sep - 2 Oct 2009; 1. Meeting on nuclear industry; Rio de Janeiro, RJ (Brazil); 27 Sep - 2 Oct 2009; 9 refs., 15 figs., 3 tabs. Published only in CD-Rom. Code: r02262fullpaper.pdf
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ACCIDENTS, COMPUTER CODES, CONVECTION, DATA, ENERGY TRANSFER, ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS, FLUID MECHANICS, HEAT TRANSFER, HYDRAULICS, INFORMATION, MASS TRANSFER, MECHANICS, NUMERICAL DATA, OPERATION, POWER REACTORS, REACTOR ACCIDENTS, REACTORS, THERMAL REACTORS, WATER COOLED REACTORS, WATER MODERATED REACTORS
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