Computer simulation of LMFBR piping systems. [Accident conditions]
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Integrity of piping systems is one of the main concerns of the safety issues of Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactors (LMFBR). Hypothetical core disruptive accidents (HCDA) and water-sodium interaction are two examples of sources of high pressure pulses that endanger the integrity of the heat transport piping systems of LMFBRs. Although plastic wall deformation attenuates pressure peaks so that only pressures slightly higher than the pipe yield pressure propagate along the system, the interaction …
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Date:
January 1, 1977
Creator:
A-Moneim, M.T.; Chang, Y.W. & Fistedis, S.H.
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