This work is devoted to modeling of the induction heating the corium melts pouring on in the trap. The results nonstationary thermophysical calculation of the temperature field of the corium and refractory blocks of the melt trap are presented in the article. In the process of work, 2D model of the selected the melt trap area was created in the program ANSYS and the thermophysical model was validated by comparison the calculated and experimental data of the experiment.
The core catcher is one of the mandatory elements of the reactor safety system, which prevents the release of reactor core materials in a severe accident. The core catcher is steel vessel filled with sacrificial materials (SM) and forming a tank where a corium melt coming from the core is formed. The trap is a steel body filled with sacrificial materials (LM) and forming a vessel where a corium bath is formed coming from the core. The melt formed in the core catcher is cooled by heat removal to the cooling water through the shell of the steel vessel, as well as by water supplied directly to the surface of the melt after the dissolution process of the SM in corium (gravitational inversion). The delay in the water supply to the melt is associated with the features of the component structure of corium and its interaction with water (the formation of explosive hydrogen and the possibility of its detonation, as well as the threat of a steam explosion). However, a certain amount of time is spent on the implementation of gravitational inversion, and it is desirable to start the water supply to the melt immediately at the moment when the corium enters the core catcher due to the danger of the system going beyond the permissible limits (the beginning of boiling of uranium dioxide) due to decay heat in the corium. In this regard, the authors have an idea – to use a fusible metal for additional cooling of the surface of the corium in order to organize heat removal and reduce the temperature of the corium in the period before the end of the gravitational inversion process. The article presents the results of modeling the interaction of corium with candidate low-melting metals – coolers. The modeling was conducted using the ANSYS software package. As a result of the conducted work, the time for which each of the considered cooling metals will reach the points of phase transitions of melting and boiling is determined. The analysis of the results allowed us to draw appropriate conclusions about the possible practical implementation of the proposed method of cooling corium.
This article presents an analysis of thermal state of a fuel element of the WCTC-LEU of the IVG.1M reactor implemented for a case when a fuel matrix is separated from the fuel cladding along a short side of the blade. Technology of a fuel element manufacture for the modernized core considers presence of non-uniformity in microstructure. To evaluate how separations of a typical size affects the thermal mode of fuel element operation, temperature fields in cross-sections of the fuel element have been calculated. Thermophysical calculations were conducted using the finite element method with ANSYS program complex. Based on the variants calculation, it was obtained data on the effect of the separation on temperature field distribution of the fuel element during the IVG.1M reactor running at design and nominal power.
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