Thermal-hydraulic analysis under partial loss of flow accident hypothesis of a plate-type fuel surrounded by two water channels using RELAP5 code

Autor: Itamar Iliuk, José Manoel Balthazar, Ângelo Marcelo Tusset, José Roberto Castilho Piqueira
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Advances in Mechanical Engineering, Vol 8 (2016)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1687-8140
16878140
47819154
DOI: 10.1177/1687814015626369
Popis: Thermal-hydraulic analysis of plate-type fuel has great importance to the establishment of safety criteria, also to the licensing of the future nuclear reactor with the objective of propelling the Brazilian nuclear submarine. In this work, an analysis of a single plate-type fuel surrounding by two water channels was performed using the RELAP5 thermal-hydraulic code. To realize the simulations, a plate-type fuel with the meat of uranium dioxide sandwiched between two Zircaloy-4 plates was proposed. A partial loss of flow accident was simulated to show the behavior of the model under this type of accident. The results show that the critical heat flux was detected in the central region along the axial direction of the plate when the right water channel was blocked.
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