A review on analysis of LWR severe accident

YP Zhang, SP Niu, LT Zhang… - Journal of …, 2015 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
A severe accident (SA) is defined as an incident involving melting of the nuclear reactor core
and the release of fission products (FP) from the fuel and their associated risks. In the SA …

From melt jet break-up to debris bed formation: A review of melt evolution model during fuel-coolant interaction

R Sun, L Wu, W Ding, R Chen, W Tian, S Qiu… - Annals of Nuclear …, 2022 - Elsevier
When a severe accident occurs in a nuclear reactor, fuel–coolant interaction (FCI) may occur
and cause steam explosion. Energetic FCI or steam explosion will threaten the integrity of …

Numerical investigation of dynamic characteristics of debris bed formation based on CFD-DEM method

W Ding, R Chen, W Tian, S Qiu, GH Su - Annals of Nuclear Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
In a severe accident in nuclear reactor, the core meltdown occurs when nuclear fuel rods
cannot be sufficiently cooled, thus forming debris beds with specific shapes on the lower …

[HTML][HTML] An experimental investigation on debris bed formation from fuel coolant interactions of metallic and oxidic melts

Y Xiang, D Liang, A Komlev, D Fang, Y Deng… - Applied Thermal …, 2023 - Elsevier
During postulated severe accidents in a light water reactor (LWR), the core melt (corium)
may relocate to the lower head and fail the reactor pressure vessel (RPV). The corium is …

Status of steam explosion understanding and modelling

R Meignen, B Raverdy, M Buck, G Pohlner… - Annals of Nuclear …, 2014 - Elsevier
The main results of the major international activities related to fuel–coolant interactions (FCI)
of the last 4-year period are presented and a summary of the knowledge gained regarding …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental investigation on debris bed formation from metallic melt coolant interactions

Y Xiang, Y Deng, D Fang, D Liang, W Ma - International Journal of Thermal …, 2023 - Elsevier
Motivated by risk quantification of severe core meltdown accidents which may occur light
water reactors, an extensive DEFOR (DEbris FORmation) test series with various molten …

[HTML][HTML] A scoping investigation on debris bed formation with high-temperature melt simulant Fe-Sn

Y Xiang, D Fang, A Komlev, Y Deng, L Chen… - Applied Thermal …, 2024 - Elsevier
In hypothetical severe accidents of Nordic boiling water reactors (BWRs), the core melt
(corium) has the potential to relocate to the lower head, leading to the failure of the reactor …

[HTML][HTML] Melt jet-breakup and fragmentation phenomena in nuclear reactors: A review of experimental works and solidification effects

Y Iwasawa, Y Abe - Progress in nuclear energy, 2018 - Elsevier
During severe accidents at Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs), fuel-coolant interaction (FCI) is a
critical event in which the melt released from the core region comes into contact with the …

Термическое взаимодействие высокотемпературных расплавов с жидкостями

ВИ Мелихов, ОИ Мелихов, СЕ Якуш - Теплофизика высоких …, 2022 - mathnet.ru
Выполнен обзор экспериментальных и расчетно-теоретических работ, посвященных
изучению взаимодействия высокотемпературных расплавов с жидкостями, которые …

Modeling of pressure drop in two-phase flow of mono-sized spherical particle beds

JH Park, HS Park, M Lee, K Moriyama - … Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2018 - Elsevier
To reduce the uncertainty in predicting pressure drop for two-phase flow through spherical
particle beds, especially composed of small-sized particles that adversely affect the cooling …