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Securing the advanced reactor fleet
Physical protection accounts for a significant portion of a nuclear power plant’s operational costs. As the U.S. moves toward smaller and safer advanced reactors, similar protection strategies could prove cost prohibitive. For tomorrow’s small modular reactors and microreactors, security costs must remain appropriate to the size of the reactor for economical operation.
Alessandro Del Novo, Emanuela Martelli
Nuclear Technology | Volume 193 | Number 1 | January 2016 | Pages 1-14
Technical Paper | Special Issue on the RELAP5-3D Computer Code | doi.org/10.13182/NT14-152
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The International Atomic Energy Agency established a Coordinated Research Project (CRP) for EBR-II shutdown heat removal tests (SHRT). The CRP aims at improving the design and the simulation capabilities in fast reactor neutronics, thermal hydraulics, plant dynamics, and safety analyses. This is achieved by benchmark analyses of protected (SHRT-17) and unprotected (SHRT-45r) loss-of-flow tests, from the EBR-II SHRT program. In this framework, ENEA has set up, applied, and is validating an integrated multiphysics approach, based on existing codes, for supporting the design and the safety analysis of Generation IV liquid-metal fast reactors. This paper outlines the rationale of the CRP participation, and it focuses on the qualification of a three-dimensional (3-D) thermal-hydraulic nodalization of EBR-II and on the assessment of RELAP5-3D code against the test SHRT-17. The nodalization models one by one the fuel assemblies of the core and of the extended core of the reactor for an efficient coupling with a 3-D neutron kinetic analysis code. The experimental data are presented and the thermal-hydraulic phenomena of test SHRT-17 are discussed, being the basis for assessing the code performance and for discussing its limitations. Blind and open calculation results are presented and discussed.