自然循環崩壊熱除去時炉容器内熱流動解析評価手法の整備; 過渡解析への適用性検討

Development of reactor vessel thermal-hydraulic analysis method in natural circulation conditions; Applicability investigation for transient analysis

浜瀬 枝里菜 ; 三宅 康洋*; 今井 康友*; 堂田 哲広  ; 小野 綾子 ; 田中 正暁  

Hamase, Erina; Miyake, Yasuhiro*; Imai, Yasutomo*; Doda, Norihiro; Ono, Ayako; Tanaka, Masaaki

ナトリウム冷却高速炉の設計において、浸漬型直接炉内冷却器を用いた自然循環崩壊熱除去時に生じる炉心-プレナム相互作用現象を評価するため、炉心部の熱流動解析の計算負荷を合理的に低減した原子炉容器内熱流動解析評価手法(RV-CFD)を整備している。本研究では、集合体内燃料ピンの熱容量を考慮した非熱平衡モデルを整備し、原子炉スクラムによる出力低下を模擬した過渡試験解析を実施して、RV-CFDの過渡解析への適用性を確認した。

In a design study of sodium-cooled fast reactors, we have developed the practical reactor vessel thermal-hydraulic analysis method (RV-CFD) that had a low computational cost about the thermal-hydraulics in the core to evaluate the core-plenum interactions occurred in the natural circulation decay heat removal during the dipped-type direct heat exchanger operation. In this study, the non-equilibrium thermal model which considered the thermal inertia of fuel pins was developed and incorporated into the core of RV-CFD. Through the transient analysis simulating the power reduction due to reactor scram, the applicability of RV-CFD to the transient analysis was confirmed.