Flow pattern and pressure fluctuation characteristics on the 1/3 scale hot-leg piping experiments of a primary circuit hot-leg piping in a sodium-cooled fast reactor

Sago, Hiromi*; Shiraishi, Tadashi*; Watakabe, Hisato*; Xu, Y.*; Aizawa, Kosuke ; Yamano, Hidemasa   

A conceptual design study of the Japan Sodium-cooled Fast Reactor (JSFR) is in progress in "the Fast Reactor Cycle Technology Development (FaCT) project", and a two-loop primary system is adopted in order to economize the plant construction cost. In the JSFR the pipe thickness is designed to be considerably thinner and the mean sodium velocity increases. To understand the behavior of flow-induced vibration that is derived from the hydraulic characteristics under high Reynolds number conditions experiments were performed to evaluate and confirm the integrity.