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MARVEL team shares lessons learned through microreactor development
On June 1 at the American Nuclear Society’s Annual Conference in Denver, Colo., a team from Idaho National Laboratory presented a session titled “Lessons Learned from MARVEL Reactor Fabrication.” The presentation highlighted challenges that arose as they moved from design to manufacturing and assembly, with a focus on reactor part fabrication, Stirling engine implementation, and reactivity control system development.
Yassin A. Hassan
Nuclear Technology | Volume 72 | Number 1 | January 1986 | Pages 49-58
Technical Paper | Nuclear Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT86-A33752
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Numerous issues regarding nuclear plant safety have stimulated experimental and computational efforts associated with the thermal hydraulics of reactor cooling systems. A scaled test facility of the Babcock & Wilcox raised-loop nuclear steam supply system was used to perform small break loss-of-coolant accident testing, thereby establishing a data base from which plant predictive system codes could be benchmarked. About 250 instruments were used to record the thermal-hydraulic response of the test facility during the transient, of which 36 were conductivity probes. These probes were designed and installed to determine the liquid/steam interface in the facility hot leg, reactor core vessel, and steam generator components. This study presents the data interpretation of the conductivity probe output signals for various tests. It is concluded that the “dry” state (steam) exists when the conductivity probe output voltage falls to the zero value of ∼ 0.05 V, independent of the fluid vapor temperature in which the probe is immersed. The temperature variations may significantly alter the probe output signal when immersed in single-phase water or a two-phase steam and water mixture, due to the change in electrical conductivity of the water with temperature.