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Improvement and validation of aerosol models for natural deposition mechanism in reactor containment

  • Jishen Li (School of Nuclear Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University) ;
  • Bin Zhang (School of Nuclear Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University) ;
  • Pengcheng Gao (School of Nuclear Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University) ;
  • Fan Miao (School of Nuclear Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University) ;
  • Jianqiang Shan (School of Nuclear Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University)
  • Received : 2022.09.27
  • Accepted : 2023.04.10
  • Published : 2023.07.25
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Abstract

Nuclear safety is the lifeline for the development and application of nuclear energy. In severe accidents of pressurized water reactor (PWR), aerosols, as the main carrier of fission products, are suspended in the containment vessel, posing a potential threat of radioactive contamination caused by leakage into the environment. The gas-phase aerosols suspended in the containment will settle onto the wall or sump water through the natural deposition mechanism, thereby reducing atmospheric radioactivity. Aiming at the low accuracy of the aerosol model in the ISAA code, this paper improves the natural deposition model of aerosol in the containment. The aerosol dynamic shape factor was introduced to correct the natural deposition rate of non-spherical aerosols. Moreover, the gravity, Brownian diffusion, thermophoresis and diffusiophoresis deposition models were improved. In addition, ABCOVE, AHMED and LACE experiments were selected to validate and evaluate the improved ISAA code. According to the calculation results, the improved model can more accurately simulate the peak aerosol mass and respond to the influence of the containment pressure and temperature on the natural deposition rate of aerosols. At the same time, it can significantly improve the calculation accuracy of the residual mass of aerosols in the containment. The performance of improved ISAA can meet the requirements for analyzing the natural deposition behavior of aerosol in containment of advanced PWRs in severe accident. In the future, further optimization will be made to address the problems found in the current aerosol model.

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