Liang Yang1,*, Andrew Buchan2, Alan Jones1, Paul Smith1, Mikio Sakai3, Christopher Pain1
The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.22, No.1, pp. 95-95, 2019, DOI:10.32604/icces.2019.05077
Abstract In the event of a severe accident, a large part of the core may collapse and form a debris bed. Debris bed coolability is important to avoid releasing the radioactive materials to the environment. If it is not rapidly cooled, the debris bed will begin to melt and become harder to cool. To stop or slow down the accident evolution, the main approach is to inject water into the reactor core. However, the success of the cooling is not guaranteed depending on the debris bed and the operating condition. This procedure is challenging to understand and model, as it involves… More >