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Conference Article: SANA experiments related to self-operating removal of decay heat

Abstract

Simulating the loss of coolant accident in an experiment, the reactor conditions have to be matched as close as possible. To establish the principle of self-operating heat transport for the decay heat removal, a demonstrating experiment (SANA II) is in preparation. To prepare such an experimental set up, which distinctly exceeds the laboratory scale, a preliminary test facility SANA 1 has been built up. For SANA-II a horizontal section of a reactor in full scale will be setup, including a sector of the core, the reflector, the vessel and the primary cell, where the decay heat production is simulated within the core.

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Reference:

Specialists meeting on decay heat removal and heat transfer under normal and accident conditions in gas cooled reactors. Juelich (Germany). 6-8 Jul 1992

International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Austria)

IAEA-TECDOC--757, pp:151-160