Study on heat transfer behavior of a cylindrical particle bed with volumetric heating

Wen, J.*; 鎌田 悠斗*; 横山 貢成*; 松元 達也*; Liu, W.*; 守田 幸路*; 今泉 悠也; 田上 浩孝; 松場 賢一; 神山 健司

Proceedings of 13th Korea-Japan Symposium on Nuclear Thermal Hydraulics and Safety (NTHAS13) (Internet), 8 Pages, 2024/11

The influence of water pool height, particles diameter and wall cooling on particle bed-water pool heat transfer was evaluated by assessing the time variation of average temperatures of the particle bed and water pool, and their difference. The concept of macroscopic heat transfer coefficient of the particle bed-water pool system was introduced to elucidate the intensity of natural convection. The results show that the time variation of temperature difference initially increases, peaks, and then decreases. Based on this phenomenon, the process of heat transfer of the particles bed-water pool system was explained. According to the result, the water pool height and particle diameter will affect the heat transfer, but the current cooling conditions have little influence on the heat transfer of the particle bed.

Experimental study on the coolability of molten core materials discharged into a depth- and volume-limited sodium plenum

松場 賢一; 加藤 慎也; 神山 健司; Akaev, A. S.*; Vurim, A. D.*; Baklanov, V. V.*

Proceedings of 31st International Conference on Nuclear Engineering (ICONE31) (Internet), 7 Pages, 2024/11

ナトリウム冷却高速炉(SFR)においてシビアアクシデントが発生すると、溶融炉心物質が制御棒案内管などの冷却材流路を通じて原子炉容器下部のナトリウム領域に向かって放出される可能性がある。典型的なSFRは、その炉心領域の下に炉心入口プレナムなどの深さと容積が限られたナトリウムプレナムを有する。そのため、深さと容積に制限のあるナトリウムプレナム内に排出される溶融炉心物質の冷却性を評価することが重要である。本研究では、このようなナトリウムプレナム内へ排出された溶融炉心物質の冷却性に関する理解を深めるため、液体ナトリウムで満たされた試験容器内に溶融燃料模擬物質(溶融アルミナ)を排出する試験で得られたデータの分析結果に基づき、溶融炉心物質が微粒化した固化物を形成する条件について考察した。

SIMMER-III and SIMMER-IV; Computer codes for LMFR core disruptive accident analysis

近藤 悟; 飛田 吉春*; 守田 幸路*; 神山 健司; 山野 秀将; 鈴木 徹*; 田上 浩孝; 曽我部 丞司; 石田 真也

JAEA-Research 2024-008, 235 Pages, 2024/10

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日本原子力研究開発機構が開発したSIMMER-III及びSIMMER-IVは、2次元/3次元、多速度場、多成分流体力学モデルを空間・時間依存の核動特性モデルと結合した計算コードであり、液体金属高速炉の炉心崩壊事故の解析に広く利用されている。従来コードに対して次のような高度化したモデルが採用されている。すなわち、安定かつ頑健な流体力学アルゴリズム、最大8までの多速度場モデル、構造材及び多相流幾何形状の取扱いの改善、熱及び質量移行過程の包括的取扱い、高精度の状態方程式、高精度かつ高効率の中性子束計算モデル、崩壊熱モデルなどである。本報告書ではSIMMER-III及びSIMMER-IVのモデル及び解法の詳細を記述する。別途詳細が報告されている個別モデルについてはその概要をまとめる。なお、コードの検証及び妥当性確認についてはすでに報告済みである。

France-Japan collaboration on severe accident studies in sodium-cooled fast reactors, 1; Severe accident scenarios assessment

小野田 雄一; 石田 真也; 深野 義隆; 神山 健司; 山野 秀将; 久保 重信; 柴田 明裕*; Bertrand, F.*; Seiler, N.*

Proceedings of International Conference on Nuclear Fuel Cycle (GLOBAL2024) (Internet), 4 Pages, 2024/10

PIRTs have been developed and are reported for the 3 sequence event families of SFR severe accidents. For ULOF, there are 13 phenomena ranked with high importance and large uncertainty. Two PIRTs for primary phase of UTOP have been developed based on those of ULOF. Two phenomena with high importance and large uncertainty both in FRN and JPN ranking are highlighted. For USAF PIRT, they are eight phenomena ranked important and uncertain by both sides related to heat transfer coefficient, chunk relocation in the molten pool of the initiating SA and to thermomechanical loading on the hexcan of the initiating SA. These phenomena are recognized to deserve priority study. The event progression regarding FP transport focusing on phenomena of ULOF is investigated. Seven phenomenological phases were identified along with the accident sequences and of their events progression. The summary of the elementary phenomena on this PIRT, and the vote for the table are foreseen in the future study.

Thinning behavior of solid boron carbide immersed in molten stainless steel for core disruptive accident of sodium-cooled fast reactor

江村 優軌; 高井 俊秀; 菊地 晋; 神山 健司; 山野 秀将; 横山 博紀*; 坂本 寛*

Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 61(7), p.911 - 920, 2024/07

https://doi.org/10.1080/00223131.2023.2287109

Boron carbide (BC)- stainless steel (SS) eutectic reaction behavior is one of the most important issues in the core disruptive accidents (CDAs) of sodium-cooled fast reactors (SFRs). In this study, the immersion experiments using BC pellets with molten SS were conducted to evaluate the CDA sequences such as contact event of solid BC with degraded core materials including SS at very high temperature. The immersion experiment aims at understanding the kinetic behavior of solid BC-liquid SS reaction based on the reduced thickness of BC pellet after the experiment in the temperature ranges from 1763 to 1943 K, which is higher than the temperature of solid BC-solid SS reaction. Based on the kinetic consideration of the reaction rate constants for solid BC-liquid SS reaction, it was found that similar temperature dependency was identified between solid BC-liquid SS and solid BC-solid SS. Besides, the reaction rate constants of solid BC-liquid SS were smaller than those of solid BC-solid SS extrapolated in higher temperature region by two or more orders of magnitude due to two different evaluation method for BC side/SS side. It was confirmed that this difference was reasonable through the consideration of previous reaction tests in solid-solid contact for BC side/SS side.

Experiment and new analysis model simulating in-place cooling of a degraded core in severe accidents of sodium-cooled fast reactors

今泉 悠也; 青柳 光裕; 神山 健司; 松場 賢一; Akaev, A.*; Mikisha, A.*; Baklanov, V.*; Vurim, A.*

Annals of Nuclear Energy, 194, p.110107_1 - 110107_11, 2023/12

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anucene.2023.110107

In severe accidents of SFRs, the cooling of the residual core materials, which is called "in-place cooling", is one of the important factors for In-Vessel Retention (IVR). For the evaluation, behavior of the in-place cooling was analyzed by the SIMMER-III code. In order to understand the in-place cooling, method of Phenomena Identification and Ranking Table (PIRT) was applied. Based on the result, an out-of-pile experiment which focused on the extracted factors was conducted. In the experiment, continuous oscillation of sodium level was observed by sodium vaporization and condensation. Analysis for the out-of-pile experiment was conducted by SIMMER-III, but the results were different between the experiment and the analysis. By investigation of the analysis result, it was revealed that the difference was due to occupation of non-condensable gas. Therefore, an analysis model of inter-cell gas mixing was newly developed, and the agreement was significantly improved by the new model.

A Series of molten stainless steel-sodium interaction experiments to develop an evaluation methodology for jet breakup during core disruptive accidents in sodium-cooled fast reactors

松場 賢一; 江村 優軌; 神山 健司

Proceedings of 2023 International Congress on Advanced in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP 2023) (Internet), 8 Pages, 2023/04

ナトリウム冷却高速炉の炉心損傷事故における溶融炉心物質ジェット崩壊距離に関する評価手法を確立するため、JAEAのMELT施設において、炉心構成材料の一つであるステンレス鋼の溶融物約1kgをナトリウムプール(直径約30cm、深さ約1m)中に放出する燃料-冷却材相互作用(FCI)試験を行っている。この試験では、直径12cm程度の溶融ステンレスジェットが、ナトリウム液面付近において、ナトリウム蒸気の膨張を伴って発生するFCIによって崩壊することをX線可視化により確認した。ナトリウムプール中心軸付近に設置した複数の熱電対の応答から、溶融ジェットはナトリウム液面付近で急速に冷却され、ナトリウムプールの底部に到達する前にデブリ(微粒化した固化物)になっていると推定した。これらの結果から、溶融ジェットと冷却材の密度比やジェット直径などの従来のパラメータに加えて、ナトリウムの蒸気化に関連する熱的パラメータの影響を考慮した評価手法の開発が必要であることを確認した。

A 3D particle-based simulation of heat and mass transfer behavior in the EAGLE ID1 in-pile test

Zhang, T.*; 守田 幸路*; Liu, X.*; Liu, W.*; 神山 健司

Annals of Nuclear Energy, 179, p.109389_1 - 109389_10, 2022/12

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anucene.2022.109389

The ID1 test was the final target test of the EAGLE experimental framework program. It was used to verify that during a core disruptive accident, the molten fuel could be discharged via wall failure of an inner duct in FAIDUS, a design concept for the sodium-cooled fast reactor. The ID1 results revealed that the wall failure behavior owed to the large heat flow from the surrounding fuel/steel mixture. The present study numerically investigated the heat transfer mechanisms in the test using the finite volume particle method in the three-dimensional domain. The thermal hydraulic behaviors during wall failure were reproduced reasonably. The present three-dimensional simulation mitigated inherent defects of our previous two-dimensional calculation and clarified that the solid fuel and liquid steel close to the outer surface of the duct can expose the duct to high thermal loads, resulting in the wall failure.

Measurements of pressure drop and void fraction of air-water two-phase flow in a sphere-packed bed

山本 誠士郎*; 大平 直也*; 伊藤 大介*; 伊藤 啓*; 齊藤 泰司*; 今泉 悠也; 松場 賢一; 神山 健司

Proceedings of 12th Japan-Korea Symposium on Nuclear Thermal Hydraulics and Safety (NTHAS12) (Internet), 4 Pages, 2022/10

To develop a microscopic pressure drop prediction model based on detailed measurement data of gas liquid two-phase flow, the pressure drop was measured in the vertical upward gas-liquid two-phase flow formed in quasi-2D test section. The measurement results showed that the pressure drop in the quasi-2D test section was much smaller than that in the ordinal packed bed system, which suggests that the pressure drop mechanism in the quasi-2D test section could be different from that in the ordinal packed bed system due to differences in two-phase flow characteristics in the two systems. The void fraction distribution was also measured in the quasi-2D test section by the X-ray imaging technique, which revealed that there was a local distribution of the void fraction in the channel unit structure of the closest packed bed.

Study on the discharge behavior of the molten-core materials through the control rod guide tube; Investigations of the effect of an internal structure in the control rod guide tube on the discharge behavior

加藤 慎也; 松場 賢一; 神山 健司; Akaev, A.*; Vurim, A.*; Baklanov, V.*

Proceedings of 13th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal-Hydraulics, Operation and Safety (NUTHOS-13) (Internet), 12 Pages, 2022/09

炉心崩壊事故(CDA)における溶融炉心物質の原子炉内保持(IVR)はナトリウム冷却高速炉の安全性を高めるために最も重要である。IVRを確保するための主要な課題の一つは、溶融炉心物質を炉心領域から効率的に排出するための制御棒案内管(CRGT)の設計である。CRGTの設計の有効性はCDA解析によって評価されるが、この解析には試験研究と連携した計算機コードの開発が合理的である。そこで、EAGLE-3プロジェクトと呼ばれる共同研究において、CRGTを介した溶融炉心物質の流出挙動を課題の一つとして試験研究が進められてきた。本試験研究で得られた知見はSIMMERコードの開発に反映される。このプロジェクトでは、CRGTを通じた溶融炉心物質の流出挙動を把握するために、溶融アルミナを燃料模擬物質とした一連の炉外試験が行われた。本研究では、CRGT内の内部構造物が溶融炉心物質の流出挙動に与える影響を調べるため、内部構造物を有するダクトを溶融アルミナが流下する炉外試験のデータを分析した。さらに、SIMMERコードによる試験後の解析を行い、試験結果との比較を行った。