Experimental investigation of sodium boiling heat exchange in fuel subassembly mockup for perspective fast reactor safety substantiation

Numerical modeling of ULOF-type accident development in sodium-cooled fast reactor carried out using the COREMELT code indicate the development and spreading of sodium boiling in the core accompanied with fluctuations of reactor technological parameters lasting over a period of several tens of a sec...

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Main Authors: R.R. Khafizov, V.M. Poplavsky, V.I. Rachkov, A.P. Sorokin, Yu.M. Ashurko, A.V. Volkov, E.F. Ivanov, V.V. Privezentsev
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: National Research Nuclear University (MEPhI) 2015-10-01
Series:Nuclear Energy and Technology
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452303816000091