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KMID : 0371819990310010017
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Nuclear Engineering and Technology
1999 Volume.31 No. 1 p.17 ~ p.28
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Loss of Coolant Accident Analysis During Shutdown Operation of YGN Units 3/4
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Bang, Young Seok
Kim, Kap/Seul, Kwang Won/Kim, Hho Jung
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Abstract
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A thermal-hydraulic analysis is conducted on the loss-of-coolant-accident (LOCA) during shutdown operation of YGN Units 3/4. Based on the review of plant-specific characteristics of YGN Units 3/4 in design and operation, a set of analysis cases is determined, and predicted by the RELAP5/MOD3.2 code during LOCA in the hot-standby mode. The evaluated thermal-hydraulic phenomena are blowdown, break flow, inventory distribution, natural circulation, and core thermal response. The difference in thermal-hydraulic behavior of LOCA at shutolown condition from that of LOCA at full power is identified as depressurization rate, the delay in peak natural circulation timing and the loop seal clearing (LSC) timing. In addition, the effect of high pressure safety injection (HPSI) on plant response is also evaluated. The break spectrum analysis shows that the critical break size can be between 1 % to 2 % of cold leg area, and that the available operator action time for the SI actuation and the margin in the peak clad temperature (PCT) could be reduced when considering uncertainties of the present RELAP5 calculation.
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