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Sensitivity analysis of a passive decay heat removal system under a post-loss of coolant accident condition

Liu, Q.; Homma, Toshimitsu

Passive safety features are now of interest to the design of future generation reactors. Though passive safety systems are considered to be more reliable, the large uncertainty associated with the system response can not be ignored. It is necessary to identify the uncertain inputs that have the important impact on the uncertainty of the system performance. In this study, two global sensitivity measures, the first-order sensitivity index and the total-order sensitivity index, are applied to a passive decay heat removal system of a gas-cooled fast reactor for identifying the key uncertainty inputs. It is found that the uncertainty in the system pressure contributes the most to the uncertainty in the system outputs. In addition, the cooler wall temperature, the Nusselt number and the friction factor in the mixed convectional flow regime also have small impact on the uncertainty of the system outputs.

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