Debris Impact on Emergency Coolant Recirculation
Subtitle: Workshop Proceedings, Albuquerque NM, USA, 25-27 February 2004
By: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and Nuclear Energy Agency
Contributors: Nuclear Energy Agency
Series: Nuclear Safety
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]:
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9789264006676
Subjects: Nuclear energy
Description: This conference proceedings examines the most recent research and developments related to the impact of debris on emergency coolant recirculation.  Held in Albuquerque, New Mexico in February 2004, this proceedings had sessions on safety assessment and regulatory requirements, experimental work, analytical work, and industry solutions.  The proceedings present the papers presented as well as a summary of discussions that took place.
Table of contents: title: Safety Assessment and Regulatory Requirements; title: Assessment on the Risk of Sump Plugging Issue on French PWR; title: The Sump Screen Clogging Issue in Belgium from the Standpoint of the Authorized Inspection Organisation AIO; title: Conclusions Drawn from the Investigation of LOCA-Induced Insulation Debris Generation and its Impact on Emergency Core Cooling ECC at German NPPs – Approach Taken by/Perspective of the German TSO (TÜV); title: Uncertainties in the ECC Strainer Knowledge Base – The Canadian Regulatory Perspective; title: NRC Approach to PWR Sump Performance Resolution; title: Overview of US Research Related to PWR Sump Clogging; title: Results of Tests with Large Sacrificial and Self-cleaning Strainers and the Installation at Ringhals 2; title: Sump Plugging Risk; title: Experimental Work; title: Risk of Sump Plugging – Experimental Program; title: Emergency Core Cooling Strainers – The CANDU Experience; title: Characterisation of Latent Debris from Pressurised Water Reactor Containment Buildings; title: Debris Accumulation and Head-loss Data for Evaluating the Performance of Vertical Pressurised Water Reactor Recirculation Sump Screens; title: Experimental Investigations for Fragmentation and Insulation Particle Transport Phenomena in Water Flow; title: Effects of Debris Generated by Chemical Reactions on Head Loss Through Emergency Core Cooling System Strainers; title: Results of the Latest Large-scale Realistic Experiments Investigating the Post-LOCA Behaviour of Mineral Wool Debris in PWRs; title: Analytical Work; title: Simple Evaluation Model for Long Term Debris Transport Velocity in the Torus of a Mark I Containment; title: Numerical Investigations for Insulation Debris Transport Phenomena in Water Flow; title: Reassessment of Debris-Ingestion Effects on Emergency Core Cooling System Pump Performance; title: Separate Effects Tests to Quantify Debris Transport to the Sump Screen; title: Break Characteristic Modelling for Debris Generation Following a Design Basis Loss of Coolant Accident; title: Containment Sump Channel Flow Modelling; title: Industry Solutions; title: Actions Taken in the Belgian Nuclear Power Plants for the Resolution of the GSI-191; title: Safety Analysis Performed in Switzerland for the Resolution of the Strainer Clogging Issue; title: Original Equipment Manufacturers' OEM Protective Coating Design Basis Accident Testing; title: Overview of Site Specific Blockage Solutions at US PWRs; title: LOCA Induced Debris Characteristics for Use in ECCS Sump Screen Debris Bed Pressure Drop Calculations.