Assessment of thermal shock resistance of refractory magnesia lining under simulated core melt impingement for application to SFR core catcher

PK Shukla, H Rao, A Kumar, SK Das, D Ponraju… - Progress in Nuclear …, 2024 - Elsevier
Despite a hypothetical event, whole core melt accident in a sodium cooled fast reactor is
investigated as a part of plant safety analysis. To prevent breach of primary boundary in …

Investigation of challenges related to vapour explosion modelling in sodium

M Uršič, M Leskovar - Nuclear Engineering and Design, 2020 - Elsevier
The aim of the paper is to highlight the research priorities for the sodium vapour explosion
modelling with the fuel-coolant interaction codes. Several simulations were performed with …