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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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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.
Jae Young Lee, Hee Cheon No
Nuclear Technology | Volume 75 | Number 2 | November 1986 | Pages 205-214
Technical Paper | Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow | doi.org/10.13182/NT86-A33863
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A computer code, FAUST (Flow Analysis of U-tube Steam generators), for U-tube steam generator design analysis is developed on the basis of the pressurized water reactor core transient analysis code, THERMIT. The original (x, y, z) coordinates used in THERMIT are transformed into the cylindrical (r, θ, z) coordinates for FAUST, which are better fitted in the geometry of steam generators. To couple the primary side with the secondary side, a one-dimensional tube representative of a computational cell in the heat transfer model is developed with a geometrical mapping between the primary and secondary sides. The special unitary group SU(2) is used to treat the complex geometry of the U-bend region for frictional wall force. A form loss model for tube support plates in two-phase flow is implemented in the code. The steam dome model developed here enables us to consider the different amounts of feedwater distributed into the hot and cold sides of the downcomer. Measured data from the steam generator at the BUGEY 4 nuclear power plant are used for the assessment of FAUST. Predicted results for the measured parameters are in good agreement with measured data: circulation ratio within 8% error and total power within 2% error. Considerable liquid recirculation is found in the U-bend region as the Combustion Engineering design code CALIPSOS shows.