Thermal and stability considerations for a supercritical water-cooled fast reactor with downward-flow channels during power-raising phase of plant startup

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 239, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 665-679

  Cai, Jiejin ^a   Ishiwatari, Yuki ^a   Ikejiri, Satoshi ^a   Oka, Yoshiaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAST REACTORS; FLOW RATE; HYDRAULICS; STABILITY CRITERIA; THERMOANALYSIS; WATER COOLING SYSTEMS;

AXIAL POWER DISTRIBUTIONS; DECAY RATIOS; DESIGN PARAMETERS; DOWN COMERS; DOWNWARD FLOWS; FEEDWATER; FEEDWATER FLOWS; FLOW CHANNELS; FUEL ASSEMBLIES; GENERATION IV REACTORS; HEAT TRANSFER CORRELATIONS; INLET NOZZLES; MAXIMUM CLADDING SURFACE TEMPERATURES; RATE DISTRIBUTIONS; REACTOR COOLANTS; REACTOR VESSELS; SUPERCRITICAL WATERS; THERMAL ANALYSIS; THERMAL POWER; THERMAL-HYDRAULIC CALCULATIONS; THERMAL-HYDRAULIC STABILITIES;

PLANT STARTUP;

EID: 61849155812     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2008.12.010     Document Type: Article

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