Steam explosion in nuclear reactors: Droplets of molten steel vs core melt droplets

A comparative analysis of shielding of thermal radiation of fires using mist curtains containing droplets of pure water or sea water

“…The crust is destroyed when the tensile stress in the crust exceeds the ultimate tensile stress in a polycrystalline sea salt. It should be recalled that similar theoretical estimates have been performed in papers[33,35,36] as applied to solidified particles of core melt in the case of a hypothetic severe accident of nuclear reactor. For simplicity, we neglect the time of solid crust formation in the present paper.…”

Effects of water deck on rock blasting performance

“…If the steam explosion occurs in the WDB, the mechanism of a rapid heat transfer from the explosive explosion to water deck at the hole bottom must be discovered. The mechanism of steam explosion is still obscure, and more information on the steam explosion on nuclear engineering can be found from the listed references: [36][37][38][39] .…”

Laser-induced photoexcited audible sound effect based on reticular 2-bromo-2-methylpropionic acid modified Fe3O4nanoparticle aggregates

“…Vapor explosion, 41 also known as steam explosion, 42,43 often occurs in the nuclear industry. Researchers have performed a lot of studies, which have revealed a generally accepted mechanism of the explosion process, namely, coarse mixing, triggering, propagation and expansion.…”