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Computation of the MARS test simulating a Hypothetical Core Disruptive Accident in a small scale replica of a Fast Breeder Reactor

Marie-France Robbe
Jean-Yves Cariou
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Eloi Treille
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In case of a Hypothetical Core Disruptive Accident (HCDA) in a Liquid Metal Reactor, the interaction between fuel and liquid sodium creates a high pressure gas bubble in the core. The violent expansion of this bubble loads the vessel and the internal structures, whose deformation is important. The experimental test MARS simulates a HCDA in a small scale mock-up containing all the significant internal components of a Fast Breeder Reactor. The test-facility is filled with water topped by an argon blanket and the explosion is generated by an explosive charge. his paper presents a numerical simulation of the test with the CASTEM-PLEXUS code. The top closure is represented by massive structures. The main internal structures are described by shells while the peripheral massive structures are taken into account with a pressure loss because their geometry is too complicated to mesh them.
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cea-04177351 , version 1 (04-08-2023)

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Marie-France Robbe, Jean-Yves Cariou, Michel Lepareux, Eloi Treille. Computation of the MARS test simulating a Hypothetical Core Disruptive Accident in a small scale replica of a Fast Breeder Reactor. International Conference on Numerical Methods in Continuum Mechanics 2000, Sep 2000, Liptovsky Jan, Slovakia. ⟨cea-04177351⟩

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