Evaluation of New Design Concepts for Steam Generators in Sodium Cooled Liquid Metal Reactors

  • Kim, Seong-O. (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute) ;
  • Sim Yoonsub (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute) ;
  • Kim, Eui-kwang. (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute) ;
  • Myung-Hwan.Wi (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute) ;
  • Han, Dohee. (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)
  • Published : 2003.04.01

Abstract

To reduce the construction cost and enhance the safety of sodium cooled liquid metal reactors, various kinds of new design concepts were evaluated using the KALIMER operation condition. The required equipment sizes were set for plant electricity output to be similar to that of KALIMER. The evaluations were made focusing on the plant performance and implementation practicality. Each design concept was evaluated for the concept itself and design impacts to interfacing systems. Through the evaluation of the concepts, it was found that the most favorable design concept is the integrated steam generator with forced convection using lead bismuth as the intermediate heat transfer fluid between the primary sodium tube and feed water/steam tube in the steam generator.

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