Sentence examples for primary coolant pump from inspiring English sources

The ATHENA computer code was used to simulate various transients without reactor scram, including a primary coolant pump trip, a station blackout, and a step reactivity insertion.

It is demonstrated that, by comparing the curves resulted from the numerical solution of the model in which design data of the TRR are used with the experimental characteristics curves of the TRR, the possibility of primary coolant pump turbining is exceptional.

The proposed design relocates the primary coolant pumps and the pressurizer outside the reactor pressure vessel (RPV).

In the EUROfusion baseline case the continuous power requirements are −290 MW and are dominated by the primary coolant pumping requirements.

One of the important passive design features of this reactor is heat removal through natural circulation of primary coolant (at all allowed power levels) with no primary coolant pumps.

To attain the required neutron flux, the design includes booster fuel plates clad with the same aluminum alloy as the ATR driver fuel and cooled with water supplied by the ATR primary coolant pumps.

In this paper results are presented from thermal-hydraulic analyses of two postulated transients in the divertor cooling loop system, (i) trip of the main coolant pump in the divertor primary heat transport system, and (ii) loss of heat sink in the divertor cooling system; trip of the secondary side pump.

The main coolant pump model is important in order to simulate well the primary coolant flow behavior at an early transient.

Two real plant transients are selected for simulation in the benchmark: main coolant pump start-up (Phase 1) and coolant mixing tests (Phase 2).

Numerous fretting damages exist at various parts of nuclear power systems [7], such as reactor fuel assembly, control rod assembly [8], reactor component, steam generator, pressure vessel [9], main pump, and coolant pump.

Based on the momentum conservation equation of the primary coolant and the moment balance relation of the reactor coolant pump, the transient pump total head, the acceleration head and the overcoming friction head during a pump start up are derived.