ナトリウム冷却高速炉の崩壊熱除去システム運用時の炉内熱流動解析評価手法整備; ナトリウム試験装置PLANDTL-2の模擬炉容器内熱流動予備解析

Development of numerical estimation method for thermal hydraulics in reactor vessel of sodium-cooled fast reactor under decay heat removal system operation conditions; Preliminary thermal hydraulics simulation for simulated reactor vessel in sodium experimental apparatus PLANDTL-2

田中 正暁  ; 小野 綾子 ; 浜瀬 枝里菜 ; 江連 俊樹 ; 三宅 康洋*

Tanaka, Masaaki; Ono, Ayako; Hamase, Erina; Ezure, Toshiki; Miyake, Yasuhiro*

ナトリウム冷却高速炉の安全性強化の観点から極めて有効な方策である自然循環崩壊熱除去時において、事故時を含むあらゆる条件下で原子炉容器内の熱流動場を予測できる解析評価手法の構築が重要となっている。そこで、浸漬型炉内直接冷却器を有する炉上部プレナム部と炉心部からなるナトリウム試験装置(PLANDTL-2)を対象に、試験解析に向けた準備として、適切な冷却器モデルの構築に着目して予備解析を実施した結果について報告する。

Decay heat removal system (DHRS) by using the natural circulation without depending on the pump as the mechanical equipment is recognized as one of the most effective methodologies for the sodium-cooled fast reactor from the viewpoint of the safety enhancement. The numerical estimation method which can predict thermal hydraulic phenomena in the natural circulation under the plant cooling process by operating the various DHRSs including the severe accident is necessarily required. In this paper, the numerical results of the preliminary analysis for the sodium experiment condition with the apparatus of PLANDTL-2, in which the core and the upper plenum with a dipped-type direct heat exchanger (DHX) were modeled, were discussed, in order to establish an appropriate numerical models for the direct heat exchanger (DHX).