… This process leads to generation of a highly voided molten fuel and metal mixture. Yet all
models reported to date to explain these experiments considered molten liquid fuel as the …

… 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. …

… Note that the proposed containment design includes a core catcher as will be discussed in
… is characteristic of metallic fuel cores. For oxide fuel cores, the reactor would also shut itself …

… gas would suppress unwanted violent fuel and coolant interaction which could jeopardize
the structural integrity of the proposed device. It also reduces the net liquid flow rate at a given …

… 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 …

… 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…

… When molten nuclear fuel drops on the bottom within a reactor container resulting from …
molten nuclear fuel is smaller in specific gravity than that of molten lead, the molten nuclear fuel is …

… gas would suppress unwanted violent fuel and coolant interaction which could jeopardize
the structural integrity of the proposed device. It also reduces the net liquid flow rate at a given …