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1 PublicationNatural Circulation Phenomena and Modelling for Advanced Water Cooled Reactors
Krepper, E.
Abstract
The role of natural circulation in advanced water cooled reactor design has been extended with the adoption of passive safety systems. Some designs utilize natural circulation to remove core heat during normal operation. Most passive safety systems used in evolutionary and innovative water cooled reactor designs are driven by natural circulation. The use of passive systems based on natural circulation can eliminate the costs associated with the installation, maintenance and operation of active systems that require multiple pumps with independent and redundant electric power supplies. However, considering the weak driving forces of passive systems based on natural circulation, careful design and analysis methods must be employed to ensure that the systems perform their intended functions.
Keywords: natural circulation; nuclear reactor safety; passive systems
Involved research facilities
- TOPFLOW Facility
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Contribution to external collection
N. Aksan, J.-H. Choi: Natural Circulation Phenomena and Modelling for Advanced Water Cooled Reactors, IAEA-TECDOC-1677, Vienna: IAEA, 2012, 978-92-0-127410-6
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