Back to home
 
Preliminary study on the transport of the nuclides in the secondary side of steam generator by using STAF code

CONG Tenglong1,*, SU Guanghui2, TIAN Wenxi2, and QIU Suizheng2

1.College of Nuclear Science and Technology, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, 150001, China (tlcong@hrbeu.edu.cn)
2.State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow in Power Engineering, School of Nuclear Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China

Abstract: The steam generator tube rupture will result in the release of radioactive nuclides from primary coolant to second loop bypassing the vessel and containment. Prediction of the transport characteristics of nuclides can provide an insight of the distribution of radioactive particles in the shell side of steam generator. In this paper, the three-dimensional steam generator thermal-hydraulic analysis code STAF was employed to simulate the transport characteristics of nuclides in the steam generator shell side. The effects of leakage flow rate and leakage position on the distribution of nuclides are obtained. Leakage position changes the distribution of nuclides concentration significantly, while leakage flow rate only affects the absolute concentration values but does not impact the relative distributions.
Keyword: steam generator; thermal-hydraulic; nuclides transportation; STAF 

 

 
      Click here for viewing full text.