On the nature of aerosols produced during a severe accident of a water-cooled nuclear reactor
On the nature of aerosols produced during a severe accident of a water-cooled nuclear reactor
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DOI:
10.1016/j.nucengdes.2008.06.003
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发表时间:
2008-10-01
影响因子:
1.7
通讯作者:
Kissane, M. P.
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作者:
Kissane, M. P.
Particle behaviour depends strongly on classic characteristics, e.g., size, and less macroscopic ones involving structure and composition these being especially important in situations of strong differential forces on a particle, i.e., surface impact or intensely-shearing flows. The former situation may lead to particle deposition or break-up and re-entrainment (with potential accident-management implications). This paper reviews information on aerosols from prototypical experiments identifying common features and typical variations. It emerges that a particle comprising one-third metal, one-third metal oxide and one-third a mixture of fission-product species would not be out of place in any potential reactor-accident sequence. Particle shapes appear relatively compact without branching chain-like structures. On size and structure, aerosols in the upstream part of the primary circuit would comprise a near-lognormal population with AMMD no more than 2 mu m and geometric standard deviation around 2, particles comprising agglomerates of highly-coordinated clusters as small as 0.1 mu m. In the containment, aerosols can typically be represented by primary-circuit particles and their agglomerates though particular circumstances (core-concrete interaction, hot-leg accident sequence) can alter this simple picture. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.