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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.net.2020.02.006

POSCA: A computer code for fission product plateout and circulating coolant activities within the primary circuit of a high temperature gas-cooled reactor  

Tak, Nam-il (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)
Lee, Jeong-Hun (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)
Lee, Sung Nam (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)
Jo, Chang Keun (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)
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Nuclear Engineering and Technology / v.52, no.9, 2020 , pp. 1974-1982 More about this Journal
Abstract
Numerical prediction of fission product plateout and circulating coolant activities under normal operating conditions is crucial in the design of a high temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR). The results are used for the maintenance and repair of the components as well as the safety analysis regarding early source terms under loss of coolant accident scenarios. In this work, a new computer code named POSCA (Plate-Out Surface and Circulating Activities) was developed based on a one-dimensional model to evaluate fission product plateout and circulating coolant activities within the primary circuit of a HTGR. The verification and validation of study for the POSCA code was done using available analytical results and two in-pile experiments (i.e., OGL-1 and VAMPYR-1). The results of the POSCA calculations show that POSCA is able to simulate plateout and circulating coolant activities in a HTGR with fast computation and reasonable accuracy.
Keywords
POSCA; Fission product plateout; Coolant activity; HTGR; Verification and validation;
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