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’Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house
No electrons were flowing through even my mouse.
All devices were plugged by the chimney with care
With the hope that St. Nikola Tesla would share.
Jörg Dreier, Gerassimos Analytis, Rakesh Chawla
Nuclear Technology | Volume 80 | Number 1 | January 1988 | Pages 93-106
Technical Paper | Advanced Light Water Reactor / Fission Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT88-A35552
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The NEPTUN test facility at Würenlingen, Switzerland, has been modified to enable light water high conversion reactor (LWHCR) representative reflooding and boiloff experiments to be carried out. Results from a first series of forced feed reflooding tests, simulating cold-leg injection, are presented for a range of values of the flooding rate, rod power, and initial rod temperature parameters. Rewetting of the LWHCR fuel bundle simulator was found to be possible in each case. Analysis of the NEPTUN-III reflooding experiments with RELAP5/MOD2 yield discrepant results, and it has been shown, in the context of calculations of the boiloff experiments, that some LWHCR specific models and correlations need to be developed.