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Thus, without any mitigating features, a LOCA will lead to an air ingress event, which will lead to exothermic chemical reactions of graphite with oxygen, potentially resulting in significant increases of the core temperature.
We have examined a number of APEX concepts to determine the ability of the design to remove decay heat from the plasma-facing surface during a loss of coolant and air ingress event.
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The analysis and understanding of air ingress events are an important aspect of the design of high-temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR) accident scenarios.
In this paper, we concentrate on mobilization of first wall materials during ingress events, and provide guidance to enhance the safety characteristics of APEX designs that utilize tungsten and similar high heat load materials.
In 2005, a need for an 'absolute' isolation valve was identified to facilitate injector maintenance procedures and protect the system from an in-vessel ingress of coolant event (ICE).
In order to demonstrate the adequacy of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor design from a safety stand point as well as investigating the behavior of two-phase flow phenomena during an ingress of coolant event, an integrated ICE test facility was constructed in Japan.
An integrated Ingress-of-Coolant Event (ICE) test facility was constructed to demonstrate that the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor ITERR) safety design approach and design parameters for the ICE are adequate.
An integrated ICE (Ingress-of-Coolant Event) test facility was constructed in order to demonstrate the adequacy of the ITER International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactorr) safety design approach and investigate two-phase flow behavior during an ICE event.
At an air ingress accident, possible physical events that lead to the loss or degradation of the confinement function of the fuel-coating layers are the crack of the coatings caused by the explosion of carbon monoxide (CO) produced by the graphite oxidation and failure of the coatings by melting or sublimation caused by core heat up due to the reaction heat of the graphite oxidation.
The integrated ICE (Ingress-of-Coolant Events) tests are performed to investigate International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor ITERR) safety design parameters and provide experimental data to validate safety analysis codes, such as INTRA.
A numerical study was performed to predict the pressure rise characteristics during ingress-of-coolant events (ICE) in an integrated test facility which simulated structural components of International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor ITERR).
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