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Technical feasibility of transition phase tests in TREAT. [LMFBR]
R.R. Stewart, Theodore H. Bauer, O.I. Hoff, Kazuya Koyama, Marvin E. Stephenson, Torsten Kraft
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Abstract
Understanding the behavior of molten fuel-steel mixtures subjected to fission heating within a HCDA environment is essential to continuing the mechanistic description of the whole-core accident into the transition phase, and further to a permanent subcritical and safe fuel debris configuration. Fundamentally, the RX1 TREAT test will simulte the transition phase of a HCDA (the accident phase in which the fuel in individual subassemblies melts and becomes a heat-generating pool of molten fuel and boiling steel). This assessment of the feasibility of such a test indicates that a transition phase test can be achieved in TREAT, at power levels simulating decay heat.
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