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Steam Generator Tube Rupture accident scenario in Lead Fast Reactor: assessment of numerical modelling for shock wave generation and propagation.
Rel. Domenic D'Ambrosio, Gabriele Ottino. Politecnico di Torino, Corso di laurea magistrale in Ingegneria Matematica, 2025
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Abstract
In Lead-cooled Fast Reactors (LFRs), a type of Gen-IV nuclear reactor, the limited chemical reactivity between water and lead allows for innovative designs in which the primary circuit, comprising of high-temperature molten lead pool, and the secondary circuit, containing the steam generator with high-pressure subcooled water, are placed in direct contact. Although this configuration offers several technological and thermodynamic advantages, it also introduces a new potential accident scenario, known as Steam Generator Tube Rupture (SGTR). An SGTR occurs when a tube in the secondary circuit breaks within the molten lead pool. The consequences of this accident have not yet been fully characterized in the scientific literature.
However, it is already known that the initial effect of such an event is the propagation of a shock wave through the molten lead pool, caused by the significant pressure difference between the two fluids in contact
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