LOFT blowdown experiment safety analysis methodology
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Source
- Conference: ANS annual meeting, Atlanta, GA, USA, 3 Jun 1979
- Subject
- 22 GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS
21 SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS LOFT REACTOR
BLOWDOWN
ECCS
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
REACTOR SAFETY EXPERIMENTS
ENGINEERED SAFETY SYSTEMS
PWR TYPE REACTORS
REACTOR PROTECTION SYSTEMS
REACTORS
RESEARCH AND TEST REACTORS
TANK TYPE REACTORS
TEST REACTORS
WATER COOLED REACTORS
WATER MODERATED REACTORS 220900* -- Nuclear Reactor Technology-- Reactor Safety
220600 -- Nuclear Reactor Technology-- Research, Test & Experimental Reactors
- Language
- English
An unprecedented blowdown experiment safety analysis (ESA) has been performed for the first two scheduled nuclear experiments in the Loss-of-Fluid Test (LOFT) facility. The ESA methodology is a unique approach needed to estimate conservatively the maximum consequences that will occur during an experiment. Through use of this information an acceptable risk in terms of adequate protection of the facility, personnel, and general public can be balanced with the requirements of the experiment program objectives. As an example, one of the LOFT program objectives is to evaluate the performance and effectiveness of emergency core cooling systems (ECCS) while relying on the same ECCSs (and backup ECCSs) to effectively perform as plant protection systems (PPS). The purpose of this paper is to present the LOFT blowdown ESA methodology.