
Severe Accidents in Nuclear Reactors
Corium Retention Technologies and Insights
Description
Key Features
- Provides a step-by-step guide to various severe accident management experiments
- Includes evidence on the termination of severe accident progressions
- Validates several severe accident codes
Readership
Nuclear reactor designers, regulators, operators, academic professionals, researchers, PhD Scholars and students working in the field of severe accidents and nuclear safety. Utilities and industries operating nuclear power plants for formulating the severe accident management strategies
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Progression of severe accidents in Water Cooled Reactors
3. Experiments with high temperature corium stimulants
4. Corium coolability in PHWRs: In-vessel retention
5. Numerical Modelling of In-vessel Retention in PHWRs
6. Corium coolability in ex-vessel core catcher
7. Numerical modelling of ablation of sacrificial material in ex-vessel core catcher
8. Fuel coolant interaction
9. Debris bed coolability
10. Conclusions
Product details
- No. of pages: 394
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Woodhead Publishing 2021
- Published: August 2, 2021
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128223048
- eBook ISBN: 9780128223055
About the Authors
Arun Nayak
Affiliations and Expertise
Parimal Kulkarni
Affiliations and Expertise
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