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Analysis of the Boiling Water Reactor Turbine Trip Benchmark with the Codes DYN3D and ATHLET/DYN3D

Grundmann, U.; Kliem, S.; Rohde, U.

The OECD/NRC BWR Turbine Trip Benchmark was analysed by the codes DYN3D and the coupled code system ATHLET/DYN3D. Considering the calculations with given thermal-hydraulic boundary conditions of the core for the Exercise 2 of the benchmark the analyses were performed with the core model DYN3D. Concerning the modelling of the BWR core in the DYN3D code several simplifications and their influence on the results were investigated. The standard calculations with DYN3D were performed with 764 coolant channels (1 channel per fuel assembly), the assembly discontinuity factors (ADF) and the phase slip model of MOLOCHNIKOV. Comparisons were performed with the results obtained by calculations with 33 thermal-hydraulic channels, without the ADF and with the slip model of ZUBER-FINDLAY. It is shown that the influence on core-averaged values of the steady state and the transient is small. Considering local parameters the influence of the ADF or the reduced number of coolant channels is not negligible. For the calculations of Exercise 3 the DYN3D-model validated during the Exercise 2 calculations in combination with the ATHLET system model, developed at GRS for Exercise 1 has been used. Calculations were performed for the basic scenario as well as for all specified extreme versions. They were carried out using a modified version of the external coupling of the codes, the ?parallel? coupling. This coupling shows a stable performance at the low time step sizes, which are necessary for an appropriate description of the feedback during the transient. The influence of assumed failures of different relevant safety systems on the plant and the core behaviour was investigated in the calculations of the extreme scenarios. The calculations of Exercise 2 and 3 contribute to the validation of DYN3D and ATHLET/DYN3D for boiling water reactor systems.

Keywords: neutron kinetics; thermal hydraulics; nuclear reactors; boiling water reactors; transients turbine trip; benchmark measurements; three-dimensional slip model

  • Nuclear Science and Engineering 148(2004), 226-234

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