… For further enhancement in safety in these advanced nuclear reactors, a core catcher is …
The core melt is a complex mixture of nuclear fuel, clad material, structural material, control …

… where subscripts 𝑙 and 𝑔 stand for liquid and gaseous … generate more heat that would fuel
further oxidation reactions. This … In particular, an in-vessel core catcher (IVCC) that could be …

… Frozen liquid fuel is mainly accumulated as particles on the bottom edge of the core
catcher. The characteristics effect of debris bed was not considered, such as particle shape. …

… Once the entirety of fuel within a computational cell is in molten state, the liquid fuel particles
… In the present study, the boiling point of liquid sodium has been taken as 1156 K (ie, at …

… into the core and an in-vessel core catcher. The transfer tubes are envisaged to evacuate …
the core prevents massive fuel melting and enhances the production of fuel debris from pellet …

… Crevice storage of the fuel–air charge and its release; 6. Oil dilution with liquid and fuel … 10,
the emission of HC after the HC catcher outlet was higher than that before the HC catcher inlet…

… and using obtained plutonium as fuel in Fast Breeder Reactors (FBRs), is best option for …
in fuel subassembly (FA). The molten fuel along with structural material will fragment in liquid …

… Total instantaneous blockage of one fuel subassembly and whole core melting due to a …
used is liquid sodium, which is reactive with air and water so in-vessel core catcher concept is …

… core catcher, presence of the bulk liquid … fuel and structural material components coupled
with the fragmentation phenomenon happening before the debris settles on the core catcher…

… The latter phenomenon engenders the fact that a liquid film … conduction heat flux across the
liquid film (trapped underneath … to simulate a prototypical core-catcher cooling channel. Once …