Two-phase flow behaviour during a medium size cold leg LOCA test on PMK-2 (IAEA - SPE-4)

The experiment to the IAEA standard problem exercise No. 4 was carried out in April 1993 on the integral test facility PMK-2 in Budapest. It was a 3.2 mm break on the downcomer head. The high pressure injection cooling was assumed to be not available. As an accident management measure bleed and feed on the secondary side of the steam generator was applied. Research Center Rossendorf contributed to the experiment of SPE-4 by supplying needle shaped conductivity probes for the measurement of local void fractions in the primary circuit of the PMK-II test facility. In the course of the standard problem exercise No. 4 RCR contributed with posttest calculations using the thermalhydraulic code ATHLET.
The report comprises a description of the initial and boundary conditions of the test and a phenomenological description of the thermalhydraulic events during the transient. The void fraction probe signals yields valuable information for deeper understanding of the thermalhydraulic occurrences and for code validation. This was the case particularly for correction of the level measurement.
A description of the thermalhydraulic occurrences from the viewpoint of code verification is given and the results of RELAP5 (KFKI-AEKI) and of ATHLET-calculations (RCR) are compared. Referring to this description, the sensitivity of the result to main influences is investigated using the ATHLET-code.