Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B (대한기계학회논문집B)

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An Evaluation of the Ex-vessel Steam Explosion Load Against TROI Experimental Results

TROI 실험결과를 활용한 원자력발전소 중대사고시 노외 증기폭발 하중평가

  • Published : 2009.08.01
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Abstract

The TEXAS-V code tuned for TROI-13 was used for analyzing the parametric findings in TROI experiments. The calculations on the melt composition are relatively similar to the TROI experimental results. The water depth effect in TEXAS-V code seems to be consistent with TROI experiments in some degree. The water area effect of TEXAS-V calculations seems not to be harmonious to that in TROI experiments. This seems to indicate that TEXAS-V as 1-dimensional code or as the numerical steam explosion has a limitation on estimating area effect. Thus, TEXAS-V tuned for TROI-13 seems to have an ability to estimate the parametric effect of TROI experiments. The evaluated TEXAS-V was used for estimating the ex-vessel steam explosion load. The calculated explosion pressure and load were about 40 MPa and 75 kPa.sec, which are not much threatening level for containment integrity.

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