Lower head failure
Lower head failure
Altstadt, E.
Abstract
During a severe accident in a pressurized water reactor with core melt, the reactor pressure vessel integrity may be threatened by the relocation of molten corium into the lower head and the formation of a molten pool.This book section describes the thermal and mechanical phenomena in the reactor pressure vessel.
Keywords: Reactor pressure vessel failure; core melt down; in-vessel melt retention; nuclear reactor
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Buchkapitel
Bal Raj Sehgal: Nuclear Safety in Light Water Reactors: Severe Accident Phenomenology, Amsterdam etc.: Academic Press Elsevier, 2012, 978-0-12-3888446-6, 145-155
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