• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 2001.05a
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• pp.248.2-248
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• 2001

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.191.1-191.1
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• 2003

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.159.1-159
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• 2001

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 1999.05a
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• pp.152-152
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• 1999

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.9-16
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• 1986

Simulation of the system thermal-hydraulic parameters was carried out following the KNUl (Korea Nuclear Unit-1) loss of normal feedwater transient sequence occurred on November 14, 1984. Results were compared with the plant transient data, and good agreements were obtained. Some deviations were found in the parameters such as the steam flowrate and the RCS (Reactor Coolant System) average temperature, around the time of reactor trip. It can be expected since the thermal-hydraulic parameters encounter rapid transitions due to the large reduction of the reactor thermal power in a short period of time and, thereby, the plant data involve transient uncertainties. The analysis was performed using the RELAP5/MOD1/NSC developed through some modifications of the interphase drag and the wall heat transfer modeling routines of the RELAP5/MOD1/CY018.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.389-400
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• 1994

The predictability of KAERI version of RELAP5/MOD3 on reflood peak cladding temperature during large break loss-of-coolant accident is assessed against 18 test runs in FLECHT SEASET test data. The associated uncertainty is statistically quantified. The selected test runs include a gravity feed test and several forced feed tests with wide range of the parameters such as flooding rate, system pressure, initial clad temperature, rod bundle power. The results show that the code under-predicts the peak cladding temperature by 7.56 K on average. The upper limit of the associated uncertainty at 95% confidence level is evaluated to be about 99 K, It including the bias due to the under-prediction.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.54 no.9
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• pp.3526-3539
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• 2022

Nuclear thermal-hydraulic system analysis codes have been developed to simulate nuclear reactor systems, which solve simplified governing equations by replacing source terms with constitutive relations for simulating entire reactor systems with low computational resources. For half a century, many efforts have been made for wider versatility and higher accuracy of system codes, but various factors can affect the code analysis results, and it was difficult to isolate these factors and interpret them individually. In this study, two system codes, RELAP5 and TRACE, which have many users and are highly reliable, are selected to analyze only the effects of constitutive relations. The influence of constitutive relations is analyzed using in-house platforms that replicate constitute relations of RELAP5 and TRACE equally to exclude factors that may affect analysis results, such as governing equation solvers and user effects. Among the various constitutive relations, the analysis is performed on the wall variables expected to have the most influence on the analysis results. Part 1 paper presents the methodology and wall friction model comparison, while Part 2 paper shows wall heat transfer comparison of the two selected codes.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.55 no.8
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• pp.3102-3113
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• 2023

Following the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the simulation of accidents in the spent fuel pool has become more noticeable. Despite the low amount of decay heat power, the consequences of the accidents in a spent fuel pool (SFP) can be severe due to the high content of long-lived radionuclides and lack of protection by the pressure vessel. In this study, the loss-of-cooling accident (LOFA) for the VVER-1000/V446 spent fuel pool is simulated by employing RELAP5 and MELCOR 1.8.6 as the best estimate and severe accident analysis codes, respectively. For two cases with different total power levels, decay heat of spent fuels is calculated by ORIGEN-II code. For modeling SFP of a VVER-1000, a qualified nodalizations are considered in both codes. During LOFA in SFP, the key sequences such as heating up of the pool water, boiling and reducing the water level, uncovering the spent fuels, increasing the temperature of the spent fuels, starting oxidation process (generating Hydrogen and extra power), the onset of fuel melting, and finally releasing radionuclides are studied for both cases. The obtained results show a reasonable consistency between the RELAP5 and MELCOR codes, especially before starting the oxidation process.

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 1996.11a
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• pp.357-362
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• 1996

LOFT LBLOCA test, LP-02-6 was analyzed using RELAP5/MOD3.2. It has a distinguished thermal-hydraulic phenomenon of a positive bottom-up core flow in tile blowdown phase. A modified nodalization which is based on that used in LP-LB-1 calculation by Lubbesmeyer was used in the calculation. RELAP5/MOD3.2 predicted overall system hydraulic behavior relatively well. However, the bottom-up quenching in the middle part of the core was not predicted sufficiently. It was demonstrated also that the peak cladding temperature can be predicted well by adjusting a discharge coefficient. But more improvements are needed in order to apply this code to actual plants with less user dependency.

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 1996.05b
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• pp.423-428
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• 1996

피동형원자로 AP600을 참조발전소로하여 설정된 1000MWe급 대용량 피동형원자로의 계통개념에 대한 안전계통 성능 평가 및 코드의 적용성 평가를 목적으로 RELAP5/MOD3코드를 사용하여 대형냉각재상실사고를 모의 해석하였다. 피동형 안전계통으로 축압기, CMT IRWST를 모델하였으며 가압기에 연결된 1단계부터 3단계까지의 자동감압밸브계통을 모델링 하고 4단계 자동감압밸브계통은 각 루프의 고온관에 연결되어 있는 것으로 모델링 하였다. 피동형 안전계통의 모델이 향상된 RELAP5/MOD3.2와 그 이전의 코드인 RELAP5/MOD3.1의 냉각재상실사고 모의계산결과 원자로내의 압력변화, 노심냉각수 주입유량 및 핵연료 피복재 온도 거동이 거의 유사하게 나타났으며 1000MWe급 대용량 피동형원자로의 안전계통은 냉각재 상실사고시 충분한 노심냉각능력을 가지는 것으로 분석되었다.