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http://dx.doi.org/10.5516/NET.02.2012.712

ANALYSIS OF THE ISP-50 DIRECT VESSEL INJECTION SBLOCA IN THE ATLAS FACILITY WITH THE RELAP5/MOD3.3 CODE

Sharabi, Medhat (Paul Scherrer Institut, Nuclear Energy and Safety Department)
Freixa, Jordi (Paul Scherrer Institut, Nuclear Energy and Safety Department)

Publication Information

Nuclear Engineering and Technology / v.44, no.7, 2012 , pp. 709-718 More about this Journal

Abstract

The pressurized water reactor APR1400 adopts DVI (Direct Vessel Injection) for the emergency cooling water in the upper downcomer annulus. The International Standard Problem number 50 (ISP-50) was launched with the aim to investigate thermal hydraulic phenomena during a 50% DVI line break scenario with best estimate codes making use of the experimental data available from the ATLAS facility located at KAERI. The present work describes the calculation results obtained for the ISP-50 using the RELAP5/MOD3.3 system code. The work aims at validation and assessment of the code to reproduce the observed phenomena and investigate about its limitations to predict complicated mixing phenomena between the subcooled emergency cooling water and the two-phase flow in the downcomer. The obtained results show that the overall trends of the main test variables are well reproduced by the calculations. In particular, the pressure in the primary system show excellent agreement with the experiment. The loop seal clearance phenomenon was observed in the calculation and it was found to have an important influence on the transient progression. Moreover, the collapsed water levels in the core are accurately reproduced in the simulations. However, the drop in the downcomer level before the activation of the DVI from safety injection tanks was underestimated due to multi-dimensional phenomena in the downcomer that are not properly captured by one-dimensional simulations.

Keywords

Small Break LOCA; ATLAS; Loop Seal Clearance; APR1400; RELAP5/MOD3.3; Direct Vessel Injection;

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