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OECD NEA meeting focuses on irradiation experiments
Members of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency’s Second Framework for Irradiation Experiments (FIDES-II) joint undertaking gathered from September 29 to October 3 in Ketchum, Idaho, for the technical advisory group and governing board meetings hosted by Idaho National Laboratory. The FIDES-II Framework aims to ensure and foster competences in experimental nuclear fuel and structural materials in-reactor experiments through a diverse set of Joint Experimental Programs (JEEPs).
Stanley K. Widener
Nuclear Technology | Volume 72 | Number 1 | January 1986 | Pages 34-38
Technical Paper | Nuclear Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT86-A33749
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In a loss-of-coolant accident, the pressure suppression pool of a boiling water reactor swells as a steam/ air mixture is expelled from the drywell into the pool and large gas bubbles are formed beneath the surface. Many tests have been performed to quantify pool swell loads, but analytical methods have been limited in their ability to provide accurate loading estimates. With advancement of numerical methods, it is now feasible to numerically simulate the pool swell process. A finite difference solution algorithm is used to solve the transient incompressible equations for the liquid flow field. Boundary conditions at the fluid/gas interface are determined using a simplified gas flow model. The program is used to simulate several pool swell tests; comparison of the simulation with test data shows good agreement.