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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.
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.