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Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2016 To get an insight into the operating characteristics of the passive residual heat removal system of molten salt reactors, a two-phase natural circulation test facility was constructed.
Xiangcheng Wu +6 more
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Analysis on passive residual heat removal system with heat pipes for longterm decay heat removal of small lead-based reactor [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2021 .A lead-based reactor with employing heat pipes as passive residual heat removal system (PRHRS) for longterm decay heat removal was designed. Three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software FLUENT was adopted to simulate the thermal ...
Hu Chongju +6 more
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Experimental Characterization of a Passive Emergency Heat Removal System for a GenIII+ Reactor [PDF]
Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations, 2010 Among the several types of passive safety systems adopted in new generation reactor designs, the experimental investigation of a closed loop, two-phase flow, natural circulation system is depicted. Emergency Heat Removal Systems (EHRSs) based on this solution are envisaged as safety-engineered features for advanced nuclear reactors, as in the IRIS ...
Lorenzo Santini +2 more
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Frontiers in Nuclear EngineeringThis paper focuses on the passive residual heat removal system of a typical large advanced pressurized water reactor, analyzing its design, performance, and reliability during station blackout conditions combined with the failure of the auxiliary ...
Tianrui Li +5 more
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Experience of commissioning of the V-392M reactor plant passive heat removal system [PDF]
Nuclear Energy and Technology, 2017 The paper considers structural features of components in a passive heat removal system (PHRS) used for the first time in Russia in the VVER-1200 reactor.
K.F. Galiev +3 more
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Известия высших учебных заведений и энергетических объединенний СНГ: Энергетика, 2023 An autonomous system of passive removal of residual heat (PRRHS) of a reactor installation with VVER designed to ensure the safety of nuclear power plants in an accident with complete long-term blackout is considered.
I. I Sviridenko, D. V. Shevelyov
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Trudy Odesskogo Politehničeskogo Universiteta, 2022 Fukushima Daiichi accidents led to the worldwide update of the NPP safety requirements. Particular attention was paid to severe accidents both during the design of new NPP units and during the safety reassessment of existing ones.
Володимир Петрович Кравченко +1 more
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International Journal of Advanced Nuclear Reactor Design and Technology, 2022 HPR1000 NPP is designed with Passive Containment Heat Removal System (PCS) following the technical route called active and passive combined concept. The installed PCS system will have effect on the thermal hydraulic (T-H) behavior in the containment, and
Jing Sun, Hui Wang, Jingjing Li
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Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations, 2023 This paper summarises the results of an experimental campaign carried out at SIET on the ELSMOR facility built in 2022 to validate a decay heat removal system for the E-SMR.
Roberta Ferri +7 more
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Safety margins confidence estimation for a passive residual heat removal system [PDF]
Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2010 For licensing purposes, safety cases of nuclear power plants (NPPs) must be presented at the Regulatory Authority with the necessary confidence on the outcomes of the models used to analyze the plant safety behavior. In the present work, we consider the problem of providing a quantitative indication of the confidence in the safety margin estimation by ...
ZIO, ENRICO, DI MAIO, FRANCESCO, J. Tong
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