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Proving DRACO will deliver
The United States is now closer than it has been in over five decades to launching the first nuclear thermal rocket into space, thanks to DRACO—the Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Orbit.
Eckhard Krepper, Horst-Michael Prasser
Nuclear Technology | Volume 128 | Number 1 | October 1999 | Pages 75-86
Technical Paper | Thermal Hydraulics | doi.org/10.13182/NT99-A3015
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In 1995 at the integral test facility ISB-VVER in Elektrogorsk near Moscow, natural circulation experiments were performed that were scientifically supported by the Forschungszentrum Rossendorf. These experiments were the first of this kind at a test facility that models VVER-1000 thermal hydraulics. Using the code ATHLET, which is being developed by Gesellschaft für Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit, pre- and posttest calculations were done to determine the thermal-hydraulic events to be expected and to define and tune the boundary conditions of the test. The conditions found for natural circulation instabilities and cold-leg loop-seal clearing could be confirmed by the tests. The main thermal-hydraulic phenomena were identified and compared with the results gained during similar experiments on VVER-440 test facilities. Besides the thermal-hydraulic standard measuring system, the facility was equipped with needle-shaped conductivity probes for measuring the local void fractions.