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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
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Argonne’s METL gears up to test more sodium fast reactor components
Argonne National Laboratory has successfully swapped out an aging cold trap in the sodium test loop called METL (Mechanisms Engineering Test Loop), the Department of Energy announced April 23. The upgrade is the first of its kind in the United States in more than 30 years, according to the DOE, and will help test components and operations for the sodium-cooled fast reactors being developed now.
Yassin A. Hassan, J. H. KIM
Nuclear Technology | Volume 68 | Number 3 | March 1985 | Pages 395-407
Technical Paper | Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow | doi.org/10.13182/NT85-A33584
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During an overcooling transient in a pressurized water reactor, the cold water from the high-pressure safety system is injected into the hot primary coolant in the cold leg. This can cause the water temperature in the cold leg and downcomer annulus to decrease; hence, the problem of pressurized thermal shock arises. A multidimensional numerical study for the analysis of the Electric Power Research Institute/Creare one-fifth-scale mixing test is performed. A new, accurate, stable mass-flow-weighted skew-upwind scheme is employed in the finite difference solution of the energy equation. The temperature predictions using the new scheme are in good agreement with the experimental data. A significant reduction in the numerical diffusion errors was achieved. These errors have plagued the conventional upwind scheme results. A good agreement between the computed velocity patterns and flow visualization is obtained.