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INITIAL PLENUM [4 records]

Record 1 2017-04-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Nuclear Plant Safety
CONT

Severe accidents in light-water reactors could lead to the flow of molten core material from the initial core region of the reactor vessel to the lower plenum. Steam explosions have been predicted to occur as a result of the contact of the melt with water available in the plenum. It is presently judged by many workers, that the magnitude of the energy released during such an in-vessel explosion would be insufficient to lead to failure of the containment building …

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sûreté des centrales nucléaires
CONT

La condition nécessaire à une explosion vapeur est le simple contact entre les deux fluides, mais les situations les plus énergétiques sont celles où les deux fluides sont mélangés avant que ne se déclenche la fragmentation. Dans les réacteurs à eau pressurisée de tels mélanges pourraient se former après la fusion du cœur lors de la relocalisation du corium en fond de cuve (explosion en cuve) et/ou éventuellement lors de la percée de la cuve et la chute du corium dans le puits de cuve (explosion hors cuve).

Spanish

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Record 2 2017-04-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Nuclear Plant Safety
  • Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics (Physics)
  • Nuclear Physics
CONT

Medium Pressure Safety Injection with Accumulators. As with current pressurized water reactors(PWRs), accumulators are required for large loss-of-coolant accidents(LOCAs) to meet the need for higher initial makeup flows to refill the reactor vessel lower plenum and downcomer following RCS blowdown. The gas pressure forces open check valves that normally isolate the accumulators from the RCS. The accumulators are sized to respond to the complete severance of the largest RCS pipe by rapidly refilling the vessel downcomer and lower plenum.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sûreté des centrales nucléaires
  • Mécanique des fluides et hydraulique (Physique)
  • Physique nucléaire
CONT

L'accident de perte de réfrigérant primaire par petite brèche [...] les injections de secours à moyenne pression (ISMP) environ 6 à 10 MPa, ne sont pas capables de compenser la brèche en liquide, le circuit primaire se vide, ce qui peut conduire au dénoyage du cœur.

Spanish

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Record 3 2005-02-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • HVAC Distribution Systems
  • Land Equipment (Military)
DEF

In an expandable modular tent, an angular pipe that connects the heater duct to a plenum and the overpass plenum to the initial plenum.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Distribution et évacuation (chauffage et conditionnement d'air)
  • Matériel terrestre (Militaire)
DEF

Dans une tente modulaire de grandeur adaptable, tuyau angulaire qui fait le pont entre la conduite d'air de l'appareil de chauffage et le plénum, et entre les plénums aérien et initial.

Spanish

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Record 4 2005-02-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • HVAC Distribution Systems
  • Land Equipment (Military)
DEF

In an expandable modular tent, a 2.1 m straight plenum that connects the feeder plenum or the overpass plenum to other straight plenums.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Distribution et évacuation (chauffage et conditionnement d'air)
  • Matériel terrestre (Militaire)
DEF

Dans une tente modulaire de grandeur adaptable, plénum droit de 2,1 m qui relie le tuyau d'amenée ou le plénum aérien aux autres plénums droits.

Spanish

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