Publication detail

The Influence of the Fuel Thermal Conductivity on the Core Temperatures during LOCA Accident

FORAL, Š. KATOVSKÝ, K. VARMUŽA, J. SALAMON, D. ROLEČEK, J.

Original Title

The Influence of the Fuel Thermal Conductivity on the Core Temperatures during LOCA Accident

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

The influence of the thermal conductivity on the development of the core temperatures during LOCA type accident is investigated in this article. At first, the RELAP5 model of the PSB VVER-1000 facility was validated against the experimental from the 11% upper plenum LOCA test. After validation, the model was modified in such a way that the heating rod geometry was changed to regular fuel pin based on the TVSAT-T fuel assembly design. With the modified model, a series of simulations was run in order to see the influence of burnup and SiC additive on the development of the cladding surface temperatures during LOCA accident.

Keywords

LOCA, RELAP5, UO2, SiC

Authors

FORAL, Š.; KATOVSKÝ, K.; VARMUŽA, J.; SALAMON, D.; ROLEČEK, J.

Released

18. 4. 2018

ISBN

978-1-5386-4611-3

Book

Proccedings of the 2018 19 th International Scientific Conference on Electric Power Engineering (EPE)

Pages from

546

Pages to

550

Pages count

5

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT148512,
  author="Štěpán {Foral} and Karel {Katovský} and Jan {Varmuža} and David {Salamon} and Jakub {Roleček}",
  title="The Influence of the Fuel Thermal Conductivity on the Core Temperatures during LOCA Accident",
  booktitle="Proccedings of the 2018 19 th International Scientific Conference on Electric Power Engineering (EPE)",
  year="2018",
  pages="546--550",
  doi="10.1109/EPE.2018.8395976",
  isbn="978-1-5386-4611-3"
}