Comparison of vessel failure mode and melt release conditions in unmitigated and mitigated station blackout scenarios in nordic BWR using melcor code
2019 (English) In: International Conference on Nuclear Engineering, Proceedings, ICONE, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) , 2019Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Nordic boiling water reactors (BWR) employ ex-vessel debris coolability as a severe accident management (SAM) strategy. Effectiveness of this strategy depends on melt release conditions from the vessel, that recognized as the major source of uncertainty in quantification of the risk of containment failure in Nordic BWRs in ROAAM+ Framework. In this work we perform the analysis of the effect of water recovery in station blackout accident in Nordic BWR on the timing and mode of vessel failure and melt release conditions using MELCOR code. The analysis is performed using Morris method in order to evaluate the sensitivity of the vessel failure mode and melt release conditions and associated uncertainty due to user-defined modelling parameters and modelling options in MELCOR code.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) , 2019.
Keywords [en]
Severe Accident Nordic BWR MELCOR, Boiling water reactors, Codes (symbols), Nuclear energy, Nuclear fuels, Nuclear reactor accidents, Outages, Uncertainty analysis, Boiling water reactor (BWR), Debris coolability, Effect of water, Morris method, Severe accident, Severe accident management, Station blackout, Vessel failure, Failure (mechanical)
National Category
Subatomic Physics Energy Systems Reliability and Maintenance
Identifiers URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-314040 Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85071389046 OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-314040 DiVA, id: diva2:1670520
Conference 27th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering: Nuclear Power Saves the World!, ICONE 2019, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, 19 May 2019 through 24 May 2019
Note Part of proceedings: ISBN 978-4-88898-305-1
QC 20220616
2022-06-162022-06-162022-06-25 Bibliographically approved