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Preliminary MONJU postdisassembly analysis by the SIMMER-II code

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The postdisassembly expansion phase of the Hypothetical Core Disruptive Accident (HCDA) in the MONJU reactor was analyzed by using the SIMMER-II code. Hitherto, the isentropic expansion of fuel vapor has been assumed after the core disassembly phase to estimate the system work energy following a postulated energetic disassembly. Recently, the SIMMER code was applied to analyze che postdisassembly expansion phase for the Clinch River Breeder Reactor (CRBR), and it was shown that the system work energy as a result of an HCDA was remarkably reduced compared with the isentropic expansion. The SIMMER code has attracted attension in the field of postdisassembly expansion analysis because of this possibility of work energy reduction. SIMMER-II was installed at PNC, the O-arai Engineering Center, in May 1980, and has been operational since November 1980. This report is divided into two parts. The first deals with the parameter survey based on the study of the MONJU postdisassembly expansion under simplified initial conditions by Kondo and Aizawa at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The other is based on the results of the initiating phase and of the core disassembly phase analyses by the SAS 3D and VENUS-PM codes, performed at PNC. In the latter, we adopted two cases which yielded largest system kinetic energy in the MONJU system, and we estimated the maximum energy released in the MONJU HCDA by using the SIMMER-II code. The main results obtained are shown below. (1)The maximum system kinetic energy released during the postdisassembly phase of the MONJU HCDA is at most 10 MJ when the active core, upper axial blanket and fission gas plenum are all voided at the initial state. (The maximum system work energy associated with isentropic expansion of the fuel vapor to 1 atm is 992 MJ.) (2)Under the same initial average core fuel temperature, a higher peaking factor of temperature distribution causes a larger system kinetic energy. For example, for temperature ...

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