Loss Of Coolant Accident In A Natural Circulation Cooled Advanced Boiling Water Reactor

This research involved undergraduate students to perform safety analyses of an advanced light water reactor designs and to observe flow phenomena that occur during LOCA. Both experimental and computational methods were developed. The design and construction of a small experimental facility capable of modeling specific aspects of phenomena during LOCA and the development of a thermal-hydraulics model for the facility were implemented. This facility was completed by first performing detailed scaling methods, which allowed for design and development of a physical experimental facility to produce and gather data, followed by modeling with RELAP5 thermalhydraulics codes to compare physical data to computationally generated data.