Development of PIRT and assessment matrix for V&V of sodium fire analysis codes

Ohno, Shuji  ; Ohshima, Hiroyuki; Tajima, Yuji*; Oki, Hiroshi*

Conceptual design study of the JSFR needs the evaluation of thermodynamic consequences in hypothetical sodium fire accident. The authors are therefore initiating systematic V&V activity for sodium fire evaluation tools. The activity is in progress with the main focuses on already developed sodium fire analysis codes SPHINCS and AQUA-SF. The present paper describes that a preliminary "PIRT" is developed at first, and an "assessment matrix" is proposed which summarizes both separate effect tests (SET) and integral effect tests (IET) for validating the computational models or whole code for important phenomena. Furthermore, the paper shows an individual validation with SET in which the spray droplet combustion model of SPHINCS and AQUA-SF predicts the burned amount of a falling sodium droplet with the error mostly less than 30%.