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Maurer, C.*; Galmarini, S.*; Solazzo, E.*; Kumierczyk-Michulec, J.*; Bar, J.*; Kalinowski, M.*; Schoeppner, M.*; Bourgouin, P.*; Crawford, A.*; Stein, A.*; et al.
Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 255, p.106968_1 - 106968_27, 2022/12
Times Cited Count:0 Percentile:16.29(Environmental Sciences)After performing multi-model exercises in 2015 and 2016, a comprehensive Xe-133 atmospheric transport modeling challenge was organized in 2019. For evaluation measured samples for the same time frame were gathered from four International Monitoring System stations located in Europe and North America with overall considerable influence of IRE and/or CNL emissions. As a lesion learnt from the 2nd ATM-Challenge participants were prompted to work with controlled and harmonized model set ups to make runs more comparable, but also to increase diversity. Effects of transport errors, not properly characterized remaining emitters and long IMS sampling times (12 to 24 hours) undoubtedly interfere with the effect of high-quality IRE and CNL stack data. An ensemble based on a few arbitrary submissions is good enough to forecast the Xe-133 background at the stations investigated. The effective ensemble size is below five.
Chai, P.; Yamashita, Susumu; Yoshida, Hiroyuki
Annals of Nuclear Energy, 145, p.107606_1 - 107606_13, 2020/09
Times Cited Count:0 Percentile:0.01(Nuclear Science & Technology)The eutectic reaction model in JUPITER code was validated against two series of experimental tests that performed by JAEA. An experiment that aimed to evaluate the eutectic reaction between Zircaloy and Stainless steel, was simulated by JUPITER code to validate its reliability on predicting the binary eutectic reaction phenomenon. A comparison of the simulation and experimental results demonstrates good agreement on the increase rate of the solution depth at various temperature environments. Another series of tests which aimed to predict the eutectic reaction between the control rod blade and channel box in BWR, were simulated by JUPITER code to test its applicability on predicting the eutectic reaction between multiple mixture components. Although the deviation could not be completely eliminated, the reaction performance in the experiment was reasonably reproduced. As a result, it could be concluded that JUPITER code is feasible to predict the eutectic reaction behavior in nuclear severe accident.
Chai, P.; Wu, Y.*; Okamoto, Koji
Mechanical Engineering Letters (Internet), 6, p.20-00204_1 - 20-00204_7, 2020/00
In a High-Temperature Gas-cooled Reactor (HTGR), radiation is the dominant form of heat transfer due to the high temperature environment. Therefore, the emissivity of the core materials (mainly nuclear grade graphite) is important for reactor safety assessment. In this paper, the emissivity of nuclear grade graphite IG-110 was measured in the temperature range from 500C to 1000C by using an infrared thermometer. Besides, the impact of the graphite oxidation, which may take place in a postulated air ingress accident, was also evaluated. As a result, it was found that the emissivity of IG-110 grade graphite decreases slightly as the temperature increase. Moreover, a relatively high emissivity was detected in the pre-oxidized specimen. Based on the measurement data, two experimental correlations were suggested for the engineering applications. It could also be concluded that the commonly used value of the graphite emissivity (0.8), is conservative for engineering judgment.
Chai, P.; Yamashita, Susumu; Nagae, Yuji; Kurata, Masaki
Proceedings of 9th Conference on Severe Accident Research (ERMSAR 2019) (Internet), 14 Pages, 2019/03
In order to obtain a precise understanding of molten material behavior inside RPV and to improve the accuracy of the SA code, a new computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code with multi-phase, multi-physics models, which is called JUPITER, was developed. It optimized the algorithms of the multi-phase calculation. Besides, the chemical reactions are also modeled carefully in the code so that the melting process could be treated precisely. A series of verification and validation studies are conducted, which show good agreement with analytical solutions and previous experiments. The capabilities of the multi-physics models in JUPITER code provide us another useful tool to investigate the molten material behaviors in the relevant severe accident scenario.
Maurer, C.*; Bar, J.*; Kusmierczyk-Michulec, J.*; Crawford, A.*; Eslinger, P. W.*; Seibert, P.*; Orr, B.*; Philipp, A.*; Ross, O.*; Generoso, S.*; et al.
Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 192, p.667 - 686, 2018/12
Times Cited Count:22 Percentile:66.12(Environmental Sciences)It is very important to understand the impact for CTBT stations caused by radioxenon emitted from medical isotope production facilities for detection of underground nuclear tests. Predictions of the impact on six CTBT radionuclide stations in the Southern Hemisphere of radioxenon emitted from the medical isotope production facility in Australia were carried out by participants from ten nations using ATM (Atmospheric Transport Modeling) based on the emission data of radioxenon from this facility, as part of study on impact of radioxenon emitted from medical isotope production facilities on CTBT radionuclide stations.
Chai, P.; Kondo, Masahiro*; Erkan, N.*; Okamoto, Koji*
Annals of Nuclear Energy, 103, p.227 - 237, 2017/05
Times Cited Count:18 Percentile:87.82(Nuclear Science & Technology)A two-dimensional computational code was developed using multi-physics models to simulate MCCI phenomena based on the moving particle semi-implicit (MPS) method. In contrast to previous studies, gas generation was simulated by calculating the force balance of the bubbles in the liquid pool in order to investigate its influence on the ablation behavior. Moreover, chemical reaction was modeled by calculating the heat release from the redox reaction between the corium and melted concrete during the erosion process. CCI-2 and CCI-3 tests were simulated by applying this code to study the aspects that may affect the ablation profile with different concrete types. The simulation result generally matches the experimental results on both axial and radial ablation rates. Application of the gas release and chemical reaction model suggested that one possible reason for the anisotropic ablation profile observed in the siliceous concrete tests is the heat transfer enhancement near the sidewall from the gas release and chemical reaction. In contrast, the test using limestone-rich concrete generated an isotropic ablation profile because axial ablation was also enhanced by the large gas discharge from the bottom concrete. In addition to the ablation profile, the crust formation and concrete-corium interface profile at the bottom in the CCI-3 test were reproduced with the help of the proposed models.
Eslinger, P. W.*; Bowyer, T. W.*; Achim, P.*; Chai, T.*; Deconninck, B*; Freeman, K.*; Generoso, S.*; Hayes, P.*; Heidmann, V.*; Hoffman, I.*; et al.
Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 157, p.41 - 51, 2016/06
Times Cited Count:32 Percentile:72.56(Environmental Sciences)It is very important to understand the impact for CTBT stations caused by radioxenon emitted from nuclear facilities and medical isotope production facilities for detection of underground nuclear tests. Predictions of the impact on the CTBT radionuclide station in Germany of radioxenon emitted from the medical isotope production facility in Belgium were carried out by participants from seven nations using ATM (Atmospheric Transport Modeling) based on the emission data of radioxenon from this facility, as part of study on impact of radioxenon emitted from medical isotope production facilities on CTBT radionuclide stations.
Shi, W.-Q.*; Fu, H.-Y.*; Bounds, P. L.*; Muroya, Yusa*; Lin, M.; Katsumura, Yosuke*; Zhao, Y.-L.*; Chai, Z.-F.*
Radiation Research, 176(1), p.128 - 133, 2011/07
Times Cited Count:3 Percentile:17.3(Biology)3-Nitrotyrosine (3-NT) has been reported as an important biomarker of oxidative stress and potential source of reactive oxygen species (ROSs). In this work, the UV-visible absorption spectra of the transients formed by hydrated electron (e) reacting with 3-NT and its derivatives were investigated, the spectra showed many characteristics of aromatic nitro anion radical. The reaction rate constants of e reacting with 3-NT, N-acetyl-3-nitrotyrosine ethyl ester (NANTE) and nitrotyrosine-containing peptide Gly-nitroTyr-Gly at neutral pH were determined, respectively, which were almost two orders of magnitude higher than that of tyrosine and tyrosine-containing peptides. The pH-dependence of e decay rate constants in presence of 3-NT was also studied.
Chai, P.; Yamashita, Susumu; Nagae, Yuji; Kurata, Masaki
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Various numerical simulations were performed by JUPITER code in order to validate the reliability of its multi-physics models, which were developed for evaluating the melting and relocation behavior of the core materials. By comparing with the previous experimental results, we could conclude that JUPITER code is a useful tool on severe accident analysis.
Chai, P.; Yamashita, Susumu
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Chai, P.; Yamashita, Susumu
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Various numerical simulations were performed by JUPITER code in order to validate the reliability of its multi-physics models, which were developed for evaluating the melting and relocation behavior of the core materials. By comparing with the previous experimental results, we could conclude that JUPITER code is a useful tool on severe accident analysis.