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Kosaka, Wataru; Uchibori, Akihiro; Yanagisawa, Hideki*; Takata, Takashi; Jang, S.*
Dai-25-Kai Doryoku, Enerugi Gijutsu Shimpojiumu Koen Rombunshu (Internet), 4 Pages, 2021/07
If a pressurized water/water-vapor leaks from a heat transfer tube in a steam generator (SG) in a sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR), sodium-water reaction forms high-velocity, high-temperature, and corrosive jet. It would damage the other tubes and might propagate the tube failure in the SG. Thus, it is important to evaluate the effect of the tube failure propagation for safety assessment of SFR. The computational code LEAP-III can evaluate water leak rate during the tube failure propagation with short calculation time, since it consists of empirical formulae and one-dimensional equations of conservation. One of the empirical models, temperature distribution evaluation model, evaluates the temperature distribution in SG as circular arc isolines determined by experiments and preliminary analyses instead of complicated real distribution. In order to improve this model to get more realistic temperature distribution, we have developed the Lagrangian particle method based on engineering approaches. In this study, we have focused on evaluating gas flow in a tube bundle system, and constructed new models for the gas-particles behavior around a tube to evaluate void fraction distribution near the tube. Through the test analysis simulating one target tube system, we confirmed the capability of the models and next topic to improve the models.
Sonehara, Masateru; Uchibori, Akihiro; Aoyagi, Mitsuhiro; Kawada, Kenichi; Takata, Takashi; Ohshima, Hiroyuki
Dai-25-Kai Doryoku, Enerugi Gijutsu Shimpojiumu Koen Rombunshu (Internet), 3 Pages, 2021/07
In sodium-cooled fast reactors (SFRs), it has been pointed out that molten fuel may be discharged from the core during a severe accident (SA) accompanied by core damage, and may solidify into debri particles with diameters ranging from several millimeters to several hundred micrometers due to interaction with the sodium coolant and accumulate at the bottom of the reactor vessel. Therefore, it is necessary to understand the behavior of such debri particles appropriately to evaluate the SA event progression. To meet these requirements, a molten fuel behavior analysis code using dissipative particle dynamics (DPD), a kind of particle method, has been developed as a part of the SPECTRA code, tool for consistent analysis of in-vessel and ex-vessel events in sodium fast reactor accidents. In this study, it was found that the new analyses code can reproduce sedimentation behavior of particles by adding a new stress term in the shear direction.
Li, C.-Y.; Uchibori, Akihiro; Takata, Takashi; Pellegrini, M.*; Erkan, N.*; Okamoto, Koji*
Dai-25-Kai Doryoku, Enerugi Gijutsu Shimpojiumu Koen Rombunshu (Internet), 4 Pages, 2021/07
The capability of stable cooling and avoiding re-criticality on the debris bed are the main issues for achieving IVR (In-Vessel Retention). In the actual situation, the debris bed is composed of mixed-density debris particles. Hence, when these mixed-density debris particles were launched to re-distribute, the debris bed would possibly form a density-stratified distribution. For the proper evaluation of this scenario, the multi-physics model of CFD-DEM-Monte-Carlo based neutronics is established to investigate the coolability and re-criticality on the heterogeneous density-stratified debris bed with considering the particle relocation. The CFD-DEM model has been verified by utilizing water injection experiments on the mixed-density particle bed in the first portion of this research. In the second portion, the coupled system of the CFD-DEM-Monte-Carlo based neutronics model is applied to reactor cases. Afterward, the debris particles' movement, debris particles' and coolant's temperature, and the k-eff eigenvalue are successfully tracked. Ultimately, the relocation and stratification effects on debris bed's coolability and re-criticality had been quantitatively confirmed.
Akimoto, Yuta; Ezure, Toshiki; Onojima, Takamitsu; Kurihara, Akikazu
Dai-25-Kai Doryoku, Enerugi Gijutsu Shimpojiumu Koen Rombunshu (Internet), 5 Pages, 2021/07
In order to improve the reliability of the experimental database for a decay heat removal system in sodium-cooled fast reactors, uncertainty evaluation of temperature measurement data in thermal hydraulic experiments using sodium as the working fluid was investigated using the sodium experimental facility PLANDTL-2. In this study, an evaluation method of uncertainty due to the influence of the heat loss from the test section and the uncertainty of reference thermocouples was proposed for the relative calibration of thermocouples fixed inside the test section of PLANDTL-2. Moreover, the method has also been applied to the temperature measurement data of PLANDTL-2 experiment, and the confidence interval was evaluated to confirm the applicability of the method.
Ishida, Shinya; Fukano, Yoshitaka
Dai-25-Kai Doryoku, Enerugi Gijutsu Shimpojiumu Koen Rombunshu (Internet), 4 Pages, 2021/07
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Teramachi, Yuhei*; Sawa, Kazuhiro*; Ishitsuka, Etsuo; Ho, H. Q.
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Yoshimura, Kazuo; Doda, Norihiro; Fujisaki, Tatsuya*; Igawa, Kenichi*; Tanaka, Masaaki
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In the ULOHS tests performed in the experimental fast reactor U.S. EBR-II, the thermal stratification in the cold pool (CP) has influence on the whole plant behavior during the events because the secondary sodium pump tripped without scram nor tripping the primary pumps. In order to create the one-dimensional model for the CP of the plant dynamics analysis code, the multi-dimensional thermal hydraulics analyses using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code were conducted to investigate the thermal hydraulics phenomena in the CP. It was found by comparison with the experimental data that the modeling of the detail sodium flow at the outlet of the intermediate heat exchanger, the leakage flow from the inner components to the cold pool, and the heat radiation from the CP to the atmosphere was important to the evaluation of the thermal stratification.
Aoyagi, Mitsuhiro; Uchibori, Akihiro; Takata, Takashi; Louie, D. L. Y.*
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The SPECTRA code has been developed as an integrated simulation system for severe accident evaluation in a sodium cooled fast reactor. In this study, the sodium pool fire model of SPECTRA is accessed through the benchmark analysis of the F7-1 pool fire experiment. As well as the comparison with the experimental data, the SPECTRA result is also compared to the results of the MELCOR and SPHINCS codes. All the SPECTRA results well agree with the results of SPHINCS from which the pool fire model of SPECTRA is adapted. The comparisons with MELCOR and experiment show also reasonable agreements in the essential pool fire behavior. The principal difference is the combustion rare after sodium supply stopping especially in the comparison with the experiment. This affects smaller temperature decreasing of the pool, catch-pan, and gas in SPECTRA. Such differences should be investigated more in the future works.
Kawada, Kenichi; Takata, Takashi; Suzuki, Toru*
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Uchibori, Akihiro; Sonehara, Masateru; Aoyagi, Mitsuhiro; Kawada, Kenichi; Takata, Takashi; Ohshima, Hiroyuki
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A computational code, SPECTRA was developed for integrated analysis of in- and ex-vessel phenomena during severe accidents in sodium-cooled fast reactors. SPECTRA consists of in- and ex-vessel modules which have a thermal hydraulics module as a base part. The in-vessel thermal hydraulics module computes complicated multi-dimensional behavior of liquid sodium and gas by using the multi-fluid model considering compressibility. Relocation of a molten core is computed by the dissipative particle dynamics method. A lumped mass model was employed for computation of ex-vessel multi-component gas flow including aerosols. Analytical models for sodium fire, sodium-concrete interaction, and debris-concrete interaction were integrated into the ex-vessel module. Basic capability of SPECTRA was demonstrated through analysis of a loss of reactor level event of a loss of reactor level event.
