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柴本 泰照; 石垣 将宏; 安部 諭; 与能本 泰介
Proceedings of 17th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics (NURETH-17) (USB Flash Drive), 14 Pages, 2017/09
The present paper introduces the recent outcome from the CIGMA experiments regarding containment vessel cooling, in which an external side of a vessel upper head was flooded by water. The test vessel was initially pressurized by steam and noncondensable gas (air and/or helium), and was subsequently cooled by pouring water to the outside of the vessel top. Similar experiments were performed by authors using air-steam binary system in the previous study, which showed several characteristic phenomena such as inverse temperature stratification. The experimental conditions were extended systematically in this study to investigate the effects of initial gas composition and distribution in a vessel. The measurement results indicated that natural circulation was significantly affected by distributions of each gas species. In particular, it was enhanced when the gas density became heavier after condensation on the vessel inner wall, while it was suppressed when the gas density became lighter, creating density stratification with helium-rich gas in the upper region. The results are explained by the simplified model.
柴本 泰照; 与能本 泰介; 石垣 将宏; 安部 諭
Proceedings of 11th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics, Operation and Safety (NUTHOS-11) (USB Flash Drive), 10 Pages, 2016/10
The Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) initiated the ROSA-SA project in 2013 for the purpose of studying thermal hydraulics relevant to over-temperature containment damage, hydrogen risk, and fission product transport. For this purpose, the JAEA newly constructed the Containment InteGral Measurement Apparatus (CIGMA) in 2015 for the experiments addressing containment responses, separate effects, and accident managements. Recently, we successfully conducted first experiments using CIGMA to characterize the facility under typical experimental conditions. Among these experiments, the present paper focuses on the results of containment cooling tests, for which an upper part of the vessel outer surface was cooled by spray water. Several distinctive phenomena were observed in the tests, including inverse temperature stratification in the vessel due to the cooling in the upper region. The RELAP5 analysis result was also presented to roughly indicate the prediction capability of the best-estimate two-phase flow code in predicting the containment thermal hydraulics.
柴本 泰照; 与能本 泰介; 堀田 亮年*
日本原子力学会誌ATOMO
, 58(9), p.553 - 557, 2016/09
日本原子力研究開発機構安全研究センターでは、シビアアクシデント対策の強化を特徴とする新しい安全規制を支援するため、2013年にROSA-SA計画を開始し、今般、本計画の中核となる大型格納容器実験装置CIGMA(Containment InteGral Measurement Apparatus)を完成させた。CIGMAは、設計温度や計測点密度において世界有数の性能を有しており、シビアアクシデント時の格納容器内の事故進展挙動や事故拡大防止に係る熱水力実験を実施することができる。本稿では、本計画と既往研究の概要を述べるとともに、CIGMA装置の特徴、及びこれまで実施した一連の実験結果を紹介する。