Abstract:In vessel retention (IVR) is one of the key severe accident mitigation strategies to maintain reactor pressure vessel (RPV) integrity. IVR designs utilize the reactor pressure vessel lower head to contain molten fuel and rely on external reactor vessel cooling (ERVC) to remove decay heat. The capacity of ERVC is limited by the critical heat flux (CHF) of flow boiling on the outside of the reactor vessel surface. Therefore, the determination of critical heat flux (CHF) is crucial to predict whether the adoption… Show more
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.