… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… ) start once the core becomes uncovered and the fuel clad temperature rises rapidly due to
the decay heat in the fuel: 1) beyond 900 C the fuel cladding and the steam react producing …

… catcher design: (a) all fuel subassemblies in the conversion and active zones melt and fall
into the lower plenum; and (b) half of the fuel … room temperature water and liquid sodium, this …

… with nuclear fuel and the … liquid oxides enter the surface, the cooling water does not create
a threat of steam explosions, which is associated with the thermophysical features of liquid …