BWR-FLECHT/GE (SET facility)

CCVM Key:

11.41

Country:

United States of America

Organization:

GE - General Electric

Operating years:

-

Reference reactor:

Availability:

Not Available

Objectives:

Pictures:

SET171 picture #1 (PNG)

SET171 picture #2 (PNG)

SET171 picture #4 (PNG)

Experimental conditions

Pressure min:0.1 MPa

Pressure max:0.1 MPa

Power min:10 kW

Power max:390 kW

Facility geometry

Keywords General:

Non Nuclear Core

Keywords Core:

Rod Simulator

References

R. W. Griebe, J. W. Me Connell, Boiling Water Reactor Full Length Emergency Core Cooling Heat Transfer (BWR-Fiecht) Tests Project Final Report on Atmospheric Pressure Stainless Steel Experiments, ANCR-1115 UC-78, 1973

https://inis.iaea.org/search/search.aspx?orig_q=RN:5117361

[11.41] BWR-FLECHT_Boiling Water Reactor Full Length Emergency Core Cooling Heat Transfer (BWR-Fiecht) Tests Project Final Report.pdf
Emergency cooling in BWR's under simulated loss of coolant conditions

https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0706/ML070640547.pdf

[11.41] BWR-FLECHT_Emergency cooling in BWR's under simulated loss of coolant conditions.pdf

Phenomena

Relevance	Phenomenon
50%	Counter Current Flow Limitation (CCFL)
50%	ECC Bypass
50%	Heat Transfer : Core
100%	Quench Phenomena
100%	Spray Cooling in Upper Head