Development of severe accident simulation code for sodium-cooled fast reactors: SIMMER-V, 2; Development and verification of detailed fuel pin model

Ishida, Shinya  ; Tagami, Hirotaka ; Okano, Yasushi; Yamano, Hidemasa   ; Kubo, Shigenobu ; Tobita, Yoshiharu

The new detailed fuel pin model has been developed in the SIMMER-V code to simulate thermal and mechanical behavior of the fuel pin from accident initiation to fuel pin failure. The SIMMER code has mainly been developed to simulate the event progression in Transition Phase (TP), and the Initiating Phase (IP) was simulated by the SAS4A code and the results of the SAS4A code were taken over as the initial conditions of the SIMMER code. The transfer of data between codes causes discontinuities due to differences in geometric models and analysis models. There is an additional issue that SIMMER has no analytical model applicable to reactor cores with complex geometry. To solve these issues, the improved SIMMER code, SIMMER-V, is being developed by introducing a detailed and flexible model to simulate fuel pin failure in the IP. This paper describes the development of the new detailed fuel pin model, the construction of the verification matrix, and the results of the verification.