Effects of ATF cladding properties on PWR responses to an SBO accident: A sensitivity analysis

Ali Alraisi, Yongsun Yi, Suwon Lee, Saeed A. Alameri, Maryam Qasem, Chan Young Paik, Changheui Jang

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    Abstract

    To investigate the effects of ATF cladding properties on the plant responses to severe accidents, short-term station blackout simulations and sensitivity analyses on hypothetical cladding materials were performed using MAAP code. For sensitivity analyses, 7 hypothetical cladding materials were used. Hypo-0 was the reference cladding whose properties are anticipated to show the poorest fuel performance during an STSBO. The input property values for Hypo-1 through Hypo-6 were selected by changing each variable independently while keeping the others at their reference values. The onset times for core uncovery and cladding oxidation were similar for all the simulation cases, implying that single property cannot affect the event times. A main conclusion is that a large enthalpy of cladding can delay the increase in temperatures of fuel and cladding by playing a role as a heat sink after the core uncovery occurs, resulting in the delayed hot leg rupture.

    Original languageBritish English
    Article number108784
    JournalAnnals of Nuclear Energy
    Volume165
    DOIs
    StatePublished - Jan 2022

    Keywords

    • ATF cladding
    • Enthalpy
    • Hot leg rupture
    • MAAP code
    • Sensitivity analysis
    • STSBO

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