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Argonne’s METL gears up to test more sodium fast reactor components
Argonne National Laboratory has successfully swapped out an aging cold trap in the sodium test loop called METL (Mechanisms Engineering Test Loop), the Department of Energy announced April 23. The upgrade is the first of its kind in the United States in more than 30 years, according to the DOE, and will help test components and operations for the sodium-cooled fast reactors being developed now.
H. J. Diamond, W. G. Lee
Nuclear Technology | Volume 54 | Number 3 | September 1981 | Pages 385-392
First International Retran Meeting | Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow | doi.org/10.13182/NT81-A32784
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During 1980, RETRAN was used to simulate the reactor core response characteristics during the Peach Bottom 2 beginning of cycle 5 main steam relief valve (SRV) discharge tests. The SRV tests were conducted at power (50% power) for the purpose of demonstrating that the torus structural response with the “Tee” quencher design is less severe than the structural response predicted by the plant unique torus analysis. In comparison with the measured plant transient data, RETRAN predicted accurate reactor power and pressure trends and magnitudes during both the opening (depressurization) and closing (overpressurization) of the SRVs. Based on these results, it is evident that the RETRAN code and the RETRAN Peach Bottom plant model provide reasonable simulation of mild over/underpres-surization transient events. For the subject analysis, RETRAN 01 Mod 2 was implemented.