A gas-cooled fast reactor is designed as an advanced nuclear reactor in next generation in the EU. In depressurization accident scenarios, pressurization caused by a release of helium from the primary system with a higher pressure into the guard containment would endanger the integrity of the containment. In the design stage, the released source term is analyzed theoretically, and is applied as a boundary condition in the 3D CFD code simulation to the transient pressurization process. The simulation results supply a reference value about the design pressure of the containment.

Volume Subject Area:
Nuclear Safety and Security
Topics:
Accidents, Containment, Fast neutron reactors, Simulation, Design, Pressure, Boundary-value problems, Computational fluid dynamics, Helium, Nuclear reactors, Simulation results, Transients (Dynamics)
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