Station blackout (SBO) accident is considered as one of the most significant design extension conditions (DECs), which has been extensively focused after the Fukushima Dai-chi accident. When the SBO accident occurs in the APR+ (Advance Power Reactor Plus), the PAFS (Passive Auxiliary Feedwater System), which is an advanced safety feature adopted in the APR+, should play a significant role to cool down the core decay heat without any operation of active safety systems. This study focuses on validation of the cooling and operational performance for the PAFS during the SBO transient with utilizing an integral effect test facility, ATLAS-PAFS. In order to simulate the SBO transient of the APR+ as realistically as possible, a pertinent scaling approach was taken into account. The initial steady-state conditions and the sequence of event in the SBO scenario for the APR+ were successfully simulated with the ATLAS-PAFS facility. In the transient simulation, major thermal-hydraulic parameters such as the system pressures, the collapsed water levels, the break flow rate, and the condensate flow rate at the return-water line were measured and investigated. Following the reactor trip at the initiation of the transient, the coolant inventory of the secondary system of the steam generator was reduced by the repeated opening and closing of the MSSV. When the collapsed water level reached 25% of wide range, the PAFS was actuated to cool down the primary system by the condensation heat transfer at the PCHX (Passive Condensation Heat Exchanger). The pressure and the temperature of the reactor coolant system continuously decreased during the heat removal by the PAFS operation. It points out that the PAFS can supply auxiliary feedwater to the steam generator and remove the core decay heat without any active system. From the present experimental result, it could be concluded that the APR+ has the capability of coping with the hypothetical SBO scenario with adopting the PAFS and proper set-points of its operation. This integral effect test data will be used to evaluate the prediction capability of existing safety analysis codes of the MARS, RELAP5 as well as the SPACE code and to identify any code deficiency for a SBO simulation with an operation of the PAFS.
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2014 22nd International Conference on Nuclear Engineering
July 7–11, 2014
Prague, Czech Republic
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Byoung-Uhn Bae,
Byoung-Uhn Bae
Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
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Seok Kim,
Seok Kim
Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
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Yu-Sun Park,
Yu-Sun Park
Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
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Yun-Je Cho,
Yun-Je Cho
Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
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Kyoung-Ho Kang
Kyoung-Ho Kang
Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
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Byoung-Uhn Bae
Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
Seok Kim
Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
Yu-Sun Park
Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
Yun-Je Cho
Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
Kyoung-Ho Kang
Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
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ICONE22-30563, V02BT09A006; 7 pages
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November 17, 2014
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Bae, B, Kim, S, Park, Y, Cho, Y, & Kang, K. "Integral Effect Test for Performance Evaluation of the PAFS (Passive Auxiliary Feedwater System) During a SBO (Station Blackout) Transient." Proceedings of the 2014 22nd International Conference on Nuclear Engineering. Volume 2B: Thermal Hydraulics. Prague, Czech Republic. July 7–11, 2014. V02BT09A006. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/ICONE22-30563
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